ABC News' Dr. Jennifer Ashton breaks down what parents need to know.
, parents across the country are left wondering what decisions to make to keep their families safe.
"The way to think about this is, this is a rapidly evolving and dynamically changing situation," Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News' chief medical correspondent and a board-certified OBGYN, said."It requires flexibility and patience and resilience and an open-mindedness to use new data, new information, new knowledge to affect a better health outcome, not only for us as individuals or our children, but for those people around us.
Here are Ashton's answers to five of the most pressing questions from parents amid the COVID-19 surge.Viruses such as COVID-19 stay alive in their hosts, in this case humans, by mutating, which is what has created the delta variant, according to Ashton. The American Academy of Pediatrics , an organization of nearly 70,000 pediatricians, has also called for schools to enforce universal masking mandates.Students, some wearing protective masks, arrive for the first day of school at Sessums Elementary School, Aug. 10, 2021, in Riverview, Fla. Students are required to wear the masks in class unless their parents opt out.
She continued,"It's always better, especially in the setting of a dramatic increase in case numbers, that we do more and not less, and that's why you're seeing these recommendations from the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics." "It is critically important to understand that the goal of these vaccines is to save lives and reduce the risk of hospitalizations," said Ashton."And even amongst the delta variant, the vaccines are still largely doing their job.
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