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Students are preparing for the new school year this month as a new covid variant spreads worldwide. How is the latest variant affecting children, and how to prepare students for covid, flu, and other seasonal viruses, such as RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus? Journalist Khalil Hachem discussed this topic with Dr. Arsala Bakhtyar Dr. Bahtyar is chief of Pediatrics at Corewell Health’s Beaumont Dearborn and a pediatric infectious disease physician. David Mustonen, Communications Director with the Dearborn Schools, discussed readiness for the new year. Dr. Yasmine Ali discussed her new book, Walk Through Fire. The first book to examine the rarely-acknowledged Waverly Train Disaster of 1978 - the catastrophic accident that changed America forever and led to the formation of FEMA. Sr. Ali is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt Univ. School of Medicine and Chief Editor of Medscape Reference Drugs & Disease from WebMD in the cardiology sections. The episode was broadcast on August 18, 20