Mar 16, 2020
3 min read
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What I Told My 9-Year-Old About Coronavirus
The virus will have a lasting impact on our children’s sense of safety
“I heard 20% of kids are going to die of coronavirus,” my nine-year-old daughter told me matter-of-factly last week. She’d heard that rumor from another classmate, the day before her Brooklyn school was shut down. I explained to her that…
