Question

How should Delta change the way parents think about Covid?

The unvaccinated

For most American adults, the Covid-19 situation is now straightforward. Vaccine shots are widely available, and once you’ve had one, Covid no longer needs to dominate your life. You are unlikely to contract any form of the virus and are virtually guaranteed not to suffer serious symptoms.
You can socialize with friends, indoors or outdoors. You don’t need to wear a mask to protect yourself or others. For you, Covid has come to resemble a mild flu that you are unlikely to get.
For children under 12, however, the situation is more complicated. They are not yet eligible to receive a vaccine. And with the spread of the Delta variant of the virus, many parents are understandably anxious.

How bad is Delta?

As each new coronavirus variant has emerged, people have feared that it would be a game-changer — resistant to the vaccines or vastly more serious. So far, though, all the variants have been much more similar to the original version of the virus than they have been different.

The vaccines are effective on all of them, and many of the early fears about

severity of variant symptoms have not been borne out. That’s why some

public-health experts use the term “scariants.”


Delta does appear to be worse than most. It may be the worst variant yet, in

terms of contagiousness and severity. Yet it also seems to be in the same

broad range as the earlier ones

Some basic principles


Different parents will make different decisions, and that’s only natural. Here

are a few guiding principles:

The interruption of school and other normal activities has caused substantial

damage to children — academically, socially and psychologically. Helping

children resume normal activities is important to their health. “Kids should

be in camp,” Dr. Jennifer Lighter, a pediatric infectious-disease specialist at

N.Y.U., told me.

There are still enough Covid uncertainties that some precautions can make

sense for children, like wearing masks indoors or avoiding crowded places.

“The actual overall threat of death is minuscule, and the threat to health is

quite low,” Dr. Robert Wachter of the University of California, San

Francisco, said, “but if I had young kids, I’d still really prefer they not get

Covid.”

The riskiest areas are those with the lowest vaccination rates, which tend to

be in the Southeast and the Mountain West. “If I were living in a place where

cases were rising, I’d be more worried that my children could contract

Covid,” Nuzzo said.

The biggest risk to your child’s health today almost certainly is not Covid.

It’s more likely to be an activity that you have long decided is acceptable —

like swimming, riding a bicycle or traveling in a car.


LOCALIZE AS RESPOSTAS NO TEXTO E RESPONDA AS QUESTÕES EM INGLÊS

1. Qual é a ideia central do texto?


2. De acordo com o texto, uma vez que você é vacinado, a COVID 19

não precisa mais dominar a sua vida e você não corre mais alguns

riscos. Quais são esses riscos?


3. De acordo com o texto, uma vez que você é vacinado, você “poderá”

realizar algumas atividades que, até então, não eram permitidas.

Quais são essas atividades?


4. De acordo com o texto, a COVID 19 ainda é uma situação

complicada. Por quê?


5. Com a propagação da variante Delta, como os pais de crianças estão

se sentindo?


6. De acordo com o texto, Delta pode ser a pior variante da COVID em

relação ao quê?


7. De acordo com o texto, diferentes pais tomarão decisões diferentes.

O texto cita alguns princípios orientadores para essas decisões. Cite,

pelo menos, duas dessas orientações. ​

Answer 1

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