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Healthy Kids 2025 Back to School News Letter By Rachelle Kaufman
We know that you all want to have a healthy school year. One that allows kids to perform their best and teachers too! As someone who has spent a number of years studying virus transmission, I’m sharing with you ways to keep the kids healthy and learning.
Section 1: What is airborne?
In 2022, the World Health Organization updated information on how many viruses, including SARS2-COVID spreads to a theory called airborne transmission. This replaced a previous theory called droplet dogma.
Section 2: Knowing this what does and doesn’t work?
Here are the top 3 things that do work to prevent airborne transmission:
1. Encouraging parents to keep sick kids stay at home, even when they fall below official school standards. Viruses are often most contagious early on, before a student develops the level of symptoms that meet school requirements.
2. Wearing a mask, preferably a respirator. Any mask is better than none, but not all masks are the same, which is why many kids still got sick while masking-because the information wasn’t provided early on, on what types of masks work the best.
Cloth-About 40 percent efficient
Blue Surgical-60 percent efficient (they are more for surgeons to prevent splatter and have gaps).
KN95 and N95 or above.-95 percent efficient. N95’s are officially certified-but can be hard to find in sizes that fit kids.
3. Air filtration and ventilation. This could be a long topic, but the general idea is cleaning the air. If you need an air filter for your classroom let me know and I can see what I can do to get you one for free (Priority to my own kids’ classes and cafeteria). Outdoor air is an even better option, especially for eating, etc.
Section 3: What won’t work or works poorly?
1.Washing hands is a good idea to prevent some bacteria and viruses. But it won’t stop respiratory viruses.
2. Relying solely on social distancing doesn’t work well because viruses linger in the air, even when the sick person leaves the area. Example: A sick kid in the cafeteria at 11am leaves virus in the air and infects a kid eating lunch at 1pm, even though the sick kid is long gone.
Section 4: Why is SARS2-COVID different?
This could be a long section, but I will keep it short since we are at almost 2 pages. In short, SARS-2 COVID isn’t just or even primarily an acute respiratory infection. Like HIV it often causes viral persistence, which can take many years and even decades to show up. However, to clarify SARS2-COVID is not HIV. A second clarification, HIV often first presents in the acute phase with flu like symptoms that can include respiratory symptoms.
Section: 5: The general idea: Although needs a little bit of updating.
Coffee w/Banana
Ingredients
Note this recipe serves one but can be multiplied: you will just need more cups. Additionally amounts are flexible.
Also, this recipe is served cold so very simple and no need for heating.
A cup
A straw (can be reusable)
1/2 banana
Up to 1 cup sweetened soy creamer (or other non-dairy creamer)
Up to 1 cup water
Up to 1 Tablespoon instant coffee.
1. Break the banana into a few pieces and put it into the cup.
2. Put coffee in the cup. You can use less than a Tablespoon if you want less caffeine. To clarify this is referring to putting the powder in directly not brewed coffee.
3. The next step is the liquid. If you want a sweeter tastier drink use more or all soy creamer. If you want a healthier drink use more water, although using some soy creamer is needed to get the flavor of this recipe.
4. Add a straw and stick it through the banana. Sucking the drink through the banana is how you really get the flavor.
And yes, I've become a coffee drinker. After what I suspect 2 years ago was a SARS2-COVID infection my energy level has never been the same. So this is how I make my coffee delicious.
Note all recipes on this blog are vegan. This one is also gluten free.
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