Coronavirus Conversations: Kids return to school amid the surging delta variant
Students wearing face masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 attend class during the first day of school reopening at an elementary school in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 30, 2021.
Children around the world are returning to class, with schools opening up after a year of closure during the COVID-19 pandemic. But with the rapid spread of the more-contagious delta variant, and coronavirus vaccines not available for much of the global school-aged population, children’s health risks have become even more pressing. As a part of a regular series of conversations presented in partnership with Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and as a special feature in The World’s podcast feed, reporter Elana Gordon moderated a discussion about the delta variant’s impact on children with Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch.
Find more of the Coronavirus Conversations series here: https://www.theworld.org/coronavirus-conversations
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