The Washington State Department of Health, Univisión Seattle, and the Latino Center for Health (LCH) co-hosted a Spanish-speaking virtual panel on May 13, 2021 about going back to school in times of COVID. Among the panelists was Dr. Nathalia Jimenez, pediatric anesthesiologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Research Director of LCH.
Dr. Jimenez underscored the importance of taking COVID-19 very seriously, given that, in some cases, children can have serious complications when contracting the virus, and more than 300 children have died of COVID-19 in the United States from a condition called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MISC).
Dr. Jimenez also clarified that various studies show how schools are a low-risk environment when it comes to COVID-19 infections when adequate safety measures are in place, such as mask usage, washing hands, appropriate ventilation, and social distancing.
This blog post (in Spanish) by the WA Department of Health provides more details about the panel, including important information given by the panelists.
Here is the full recording of the Spanish-speaking panel:
And here is the English voiceover of the recording: