Answering Parents’ COVID Questions — Sarah Hiner Talks to Dr. Darria Long Gillespie

Dr. Darria Long

Dr. Darria Long is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, national media contributor, national best-selling author and digital health executive. A Harvard and Yale-trained physician, she distills the science and information to deliver data-driven guidance to make lives healthier, better…and easier.

Dr. Darria appears regularly on CNN, Headline News, The Dr. Oz Show, NBC and other outlets. She is the national bests-elling author of Mom Hacks, and TedX speaker of “An ER Doctor on Triaging Your Crazy Busy Life”. Combining her life’s work as an emergency room physician, patient with autoimmune arthritis and mother, Dr. Darria distills complex information for her audiences to give people holistic, evidence-based and entirely do-able-in-their-busy-lives solutions for their health and wellness.

Dr. Darria is clinical assistant professor at University of Tennessee. She received her training in emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine and her MBA from Harvard Business School, and previously was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.

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Parents have been put in a horrible situation through the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides dealing with their own health and the health of their families, they’ve had to home-school…and entertain…and help their children deal with their confusion and fears. Now, as the country works to open up, there are many questions confronting parents about the future.

In this edition of the Bottom Line Advocator Podcast with Sarah Hiner, emergency-room doctor and mother of two Dr. Darria Long Gillespie joins Bottom Line President Sarah Hiner to answer the questions that so many parents have about COVID and their children.

Specific topics covered…

Challenges parents are facing (00:00 – 5:13)
How dangerous is COVID for kids…really (5:13 – 6:27)
How common are rare reactions to illness (6:27 – 8:50)
Do childhood vaccinations impact COVID vulnerability (8:50 – 10:28)
Research findings regarding kids and COVID (10:28 – 12:19)
Quarantine pods for children (12:19 – 14:42)
Questions about how long immunity lasts (14:42 – 15:28)
Understanding the Kawasaki-like response to COVID (15:28 – 16:40)
Weighing multiple types of risks (16:40 – 18:11)
Dr. Darria’s 4D system of decision making (18:11 – 21:50)
Kids and the grocery store (21:50 – 23:00)
Kids and play dates (23:00 – 24:52)
Should you let your kids play team sports (24:52 – 28:36)
Safety strategies at playgrounds (28:36 – 30:15)
If kids rarely get COVID, why isolate them? (30:15 – 32:45)
Dr. Darria’s opinion on kids returning to school (32:45 – 35:02)
Emotional damage to children—rise in anxiety (35:02 – 41:31)
Hand sanitizer smarts (41:31 – 43:15)
Help for stressed out parents (43:15 – 45:48)
Take something off your plate (45:48 – 46:52)
“Rupture and repair” is important (46:52 – 49:44)
Let your children try new things (49:44 – 50:50)
How to strengthen kids’ immune systems (50:50 –

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