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NPR Education
Just
For Kids: A Comic Exploring The Coronavirus
Malaka Gharib/NPR
With so much news these days about the spread of Coronavirus, maybe
you're feeling a bit... anxious? Well, imagine how the children in your
life are feeling!
So, this week, we did something a little unusual.
I spoke with a handful of child development experts to help me build a
guide – for kids – on how to protect themselves from COVID-19 and how
to manage the worried feelings they may be experiencing.
There’s lots of good news here: from hand washing tips to helpful facts
about the disease’s low rates of infection among kids. Perhaps best of
all, while I shared all of this on the radio, my NPR colleague, Malaka
Gharib, an illustrator, sat in on all of my interviews and distilled
our reporting into a super useful and engaging comic for kids.
— Cory Turner, NPR Ed Correspondent & Senior Editor
From Malaka Gharib
February 28, 2020
Kids, this comic is for you.
It's based on a radio story that NPR education reporter Cory Turner
did. He asked some experts what kids might want to know about the new
coronavirus discovered in China.
To make this comic, we've used his interviews with Tara Powell at the
University of Illinois School of Social Work, Joy Osofsky at the LSU
Health Sciences Center in New Orleans and Krystal Lewis at the National
Institute of Mental Health.
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