Coloring books help explain COVID-19
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital has created two coloring books to help parents teach their children about coronavirus and COVID-19.
The coloring book offers guidance in a format specifically designed for children. The illustrated pages depict a boy, a girl, a parent, a nurse and the sometimes anthropomorphized virus itself and provide basic instructions on prevention as well as information about the virus.
The second book includes more information as well as word searches and other activities designed to teach more about the virus.
More information is available here https://together.stjude.org/en-us/care-support/covid-19-resources.html.
The two books can be downloaded and then printed out from the button and link below.
Gotta wonder – if an obscure but curious question, about the symbolism, if any, of the ‘King-like’ crown depicted on the head of Coronavirus face-illustrations in the coloring book? Maybe nothing but to better attract kid’s attention/interest, and/or to seem as an important character, etc. Then again, wonder if somehow/otherwise with more meaning. Tried to find something about it via the links, but nothing.
It is called a corona because of the crown-like or halo effect the protrusions create under a microscope.
FROM THE COLORING BOOK:
Coronavirus is a big word, but did you know that “corona” means
crown? When you look at coronavirus under a microscope, a part of the
virus looks like a crown.
Are they sending this coloring book to Trump? Might teach Trump about Coronavirus?
People like you pointing fingers and complaining are most of the problem. People are mot listening to stay home why is that his fault. He puts out guide lines and it is up to the Governors and mayors to set their policy. Smart remarks is uncalled for we are all in this together.
Hi Rob. I don’t know about you but I am so tired of winning. Remember when trump said that? “you will be so sick of winning.”
well 3 years later and basically the entire county is either quarantined, sick or dead.. trump made the situation much worse by cutting funding and not taking trumpvirus seriously. cutting money for virus defense and giving it to the rich (newsflash regular guys like you got very little of that tax money).
The one thing people thought trump was good at, business is going awful. These numbers must really anger trump and his followers:
stock market under Obama 17.25% per year
stock market under trump 4.8% (as of 4/6/2020)
hmmm Obama seems to be 3.5 times better than trump. how can that be? yeah I know, it is Obama’s fault.
This all is Obama’s fault. I mean this system that Trump inherited was bad right? So he’s fixed it right? You know for the three years he’s been in office. Oh wait, he’s too busy playing golf more than any president ever. At his own golf courses at the taxpayer expense. Makes perfect sense to me.
Sounds like someone is trying to defend the indefensible facts that Trump screwed up royally. Way to use the party line and blame Governors for the completely and utter failure at the federal level. I wonder why people aren’t listening? Maybe it’s because Trump and conservative media have been down playing it for months? Maybe it’s all the conservative conspiracy theories?
“People like you pointing fingers and complaining are most of the problem.”
Actually, most of the problem is that Covid-19 is still so poorly understood despite 351,890 cases in the US as of today and 1,309,439 world-wide so far; our nation’s pandemic response team was essentially “fired” back in 2018, which put us behind the Eight Ball to begin with; we have a health care system that was not prepared for anything of this magnitude; hospitals across the country are running seriously low on supplies and there is virtually no coordination around manufacturing these supplies or distributing them; some critically vital supplies, such as ventilators, were not being maintained over the past few years and therefore are not working reliably; there are currently no vaccines that can either cure Covid-19 or even act as a preventive; despite hype to the contrary, many areas still do not have adequate testing and some testing is seeing significant delays in getting results back; we have wanna-be experts who are muddying the water with misinformation; some governors have still not issued executive Stay at Home orders despite the growing number of cases; the general public in lesser hit [so far] areas like ours are not taking those orders seriously (have you seen the Rural King parking lot lately?); we have mixed messages on something as fundamental as whether or not we should all be wearing non-medical grade masks in public (CDC says yes; Pres. Trump says he won’t wear one; the First Lady says we should all do so); the goes on and on.
Those would be some of main reasons for this catastrophe. Any “finger-pointing and complaining” are a product of these issues; not the cause.