Overview:

This episode reviews the current news updates of this pandemic as well as recently updated guidelines and medical literature. Our moderator, Dr. Waleed Javaid, has a discussion with Katherine Burdge, President-elect of the Florida Association of School Nurses and full-time registered nurse for the Hillsborough County School District in Tampa, Florida, and Dr. Shanna Kowalsky, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, about how healthcare professionals can work most effectively with a safe return to in-person learning, how to advise parents and students in K-12, and how HCPs can get involved with assisting with school reopenings.

Speakers:

- Katherine Burdge, MSN, RN

- Shanna Kowalsky, DO

- Waleed Javaid, MD (moderator)

- Cindy Prins, PhD, MPH, CIC, CPH (news update)

Sources from news update:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm?s_cid=mm7035e5_w

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/impact-of-weekly-asymptomatic-testing-for-sarscov2-virus-in-inpatients-at-an-academic-hospital/AA937C194C9D966AB6344C48439020CE

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