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COVID-19: Vassar College Reveals Plans For Bringing Students Back To Campus COVID-19: Vassar College Reveals Plans For Bringing Students Back To Campus
Covid-19: Vassar College Reveals Plans For Bringing Students Back To Campus Another Hudson Valley college has announced its plans for reopening its campus for the first time since March in the fall as New York recovers from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The plan for Vassar College in Poughkeepsie is calling for the arrival of small groups of students to campus on staggered dates beginning on Saturday, Aug. 15, with classes beginning on Monday, Aug. 31. Students who are unable to return to campus or who choose not to do so will be able to take courses remotely.  According to Vassar President Elizabeth Bradley, the college will be employing a comb…
COVID-19 And Your Child With Type 1 Diabetes:  What You Need to Know COVID-19 And Your Child With Type 1 Diabetes:  What You Need to Know
Covid-19 And Your Child With Type 1 Diabetes: What You Need to Know Presently, data shows that children, adolescents and young adults with well-managed endocrine conditions, such as diabetes, are not at increased risk of getting infected or becoming severely ill with the coronavirus. However, poorly controlled diabetes can weaken their immunity and thereby increase the risk of getting infected. There are some indications that otherwise healthy, but severely obese children are at increased risk of a more complicated lung infection due to COVID-19. New data is becoming available each day about the virus, but in the meantime, parents and caregivers of children w…