Today on AirTalk, we discuss the emotional and psychological challenges students might face when school districts determine when and how schools can reopen. Also on the show, we continue our daily AMA with a medical expert; see what new things listeners are learning about their partners while stuck at home; and more.
COVID-19: Immune Cells Found In Healthy People, What To Consider Ahead Of Memorial Day Weekend
As of Monday, L.A. County had more than 1,830 deaths and more than 38,450 confirmed cases of coronavirus. In April, Newsom announced a framework of six parameters he says it will take to reopen the state's economy. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a similar five-pillar plan.
L.A. County public health officials have begun to ease some restrictions and allowed some types of businesses deemed lower risk to reopen — but only for doorside, curbside or other outside pickup. Customers are not allowed to enter stores. Those include all retail stores, along with car dealerships, florists, and certain manufacturing and logistics businesses that supply those lower-risk retailers. By this weekend, all states in the U.S. will have started to lift measures originally put in place to curb the pandemic, CNN reports. Today on AirTalk, we’ll set the stage for the Memorial Day weekend holiday and what considerations people should take into account ahead of time.
Plus, a new study finds that some people were carrying immune cells as far as five years back. The T cells could recognize the coronavirus and set forth an attack on the virus. We discuss all this and the latest with COVID-19 with a noted infectious disease specialist. We’ll also continue taking your questions. Call 866-893-5722.
With files from LAist. Read the full story here.
Guest:
Kimberly Shriner, M.D., infectious disease specialist at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena
Are You Seeing Your S.O. Or Loved Ones In A Whole New Light Thanks To COVID-19?
In the new normal of the coronavirus, many people are spending way more time with their partners and loved ones who live in the same household. Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a stay at home order across California in mid-March as an effort to protect public health and help hospitals.
While this can be a test of patience to (maybe numerous) annoying habits or quirks you had never noticed before, it can also be a time for recognizing different pleasant qualities of the people you love. For example, Larry Mantle has noticed the thoughtfulness his wife Kristen puts into her work as a speech pathologist. It was something he wasn’t in a position to see before stay-at-home orders went into effect.
Today on AirTalk we want to hear from you about your experience living and working from home with your significant other or loved ones. What are you seeing now that you hadn’t seen before? Are you noticing their work ethic? Maybe their kindness? Tell us all about it by calling 866-893-5722.
The Psychological, Emotional And Educational Tradeoffs To Consider For When Schools Reopen
As of right now, there are no definitive plans for districts anywhere in California to reopen school buildings for teachers, staff and students to return to what was considered normal operation before the coronavirus pandemic.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has said it plans to restart classes on August 18th, but with no timeline for resuming classroom instruction for students. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control issued guidelines for schools in the form of a decision tree on how to decide whether it’s safe to reopen or whether more time is needed to ensure certain safeguards are met so that students, teachers and school staff all feel safe to return.
Finding that “just right” time to reopen schools figures to be a difficult balance for lawmakers and school administrators to strike, and over the coming months they will be wading their way through a sea of tradeoffs to consider from emotional, psychological and public health points of view. Schools reopening is key to restarting the economy, since many parents can’t fully return to work until their kids are back in school. Decision-makers will have to weigh the risk of a virus spread happening at a school with the risk of continuing to force kids to learn at a distance when they are already starved for human contact with their peers and specialized instruction that is so crucial to educational development. What does that portend for older faculty and staff members who might be at higher risk for contracting the virus? And what about parents who aren’t comfortable sending their kids back when schools reopen? Should they have a choice in whether to keep their kids at home?
Today on AirTalk, we’re examining the many trade-offs that will come along with reopening schools, when that time comes. If you’re a parent, student, educator, administrator or school staff member, we’d like to hear what things you’re weighing as you think about going back to school. Join our live conversation by calling 866-892-5722.
Guests:
Richard Jackson, M.D., pediatrician, epidemiologist and professor emeritus at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, he’s served in many leadership positions with the California Health Department, including as the State Health Officer, for nine years he served as director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health
Pedro Noguera, distinguished professor of education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies; as of July 1, he will be the dean of the Rossier School of Education at USC; he tweets
Elina Saeki, assistant professor and program coordinator of the Masters in School Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) and a nationally-certified school psychologist (NCSP)
What’s In A Winning Streak? The Myths, Science And History of Success
Whether you’re an athlete, a gambler, or a regular shmo, you’ve experienced the feeling of being on a winning streak -- but was there anything to it besides the human brain’s affinity for making meaning out of coincidence?
That’s a question that scientists, statisticians and economists have tried to address for years. Now, Wall Street Journal sports reporter Ben Cohen takes a crack at the topic with his new book, “The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks.” We sit down with Cohen to hear about what he’s learned.
Guest:
Ben Cohen, sports reporter for The Wall Street Journal and author of “The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks” (Custom House, March 2020); he tweets