In the Spotlight

In the Spotlight is a science communication podcast where we interview graduate students or postdoctoral fellows in the sciences about their research and how it relates to the world around us. What problems are they trying to solve? What should we all understand about their work? What policies may be needed to support this research? These are the questions we will try to answer on In the Spotlight. This podcast is hosted and produced by Emily Schafer and Nicolas Scrutton Alvarado, and supported by Northwestern University's Science Policy Outreach Taskforce (SPOT).

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Science Policy in the Spotlight: COVID-19 and Schooling 2

March 29, 2022 • Northwestern University Science Policy Outreach Taskforce • Season 3

We are introducing a new monthly policy episode series called "Science Policy in the Spotlight," where we will focus our attention on a timely and local policy topic in the greater Chicago area and understand how science helps inform the topic. This series, we're focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 schooling.
In the 2nd episode of this 4 episode series, we are hearing much more on the topic of risk and transmission in kids - are children really as immune to COVID-19 as the media portrays them to be? What research questions do we still need to figure out? All this and more from a pediatric infectious disease specialist, Dr. Taylor Heald-Sargent!
If you want to learn more about the information discussed throughout this episode, our sources are listed here:

Dr. Heald-Sargent's early paper from the pandemic on SARS-CoV-2 in children
CDC's March 11th MMWR report on COVID-19 risk in children
More on the ABC Science Collaborative and their study on rates of secondary transmission in schools

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