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Today we're bringing you a column from a teacher writing about what can be done to help students and teachers prepare. 

How Schools can reduce the risk of COVID-19

By Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel

In two weeks, I go back to teaching in the classroom. Ironically, my course is titled the “Future of the American Health System," a topic that has abruptly come into full view over the past year. 

Like everyone else enmeshed in this year’s going back to school rush – parents, students, teachers, administrators, school boards and local officials – the surges caused by the highly infectious delta variant have made me nervous.

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Welcome Afghan allies who helped the United States

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Even for a nation with such a proud legacy of immigrants – those "huddled masses yearning to breathe free," as it says on the Statue of Liberty – there is a special place in the American heart for Afghans.

If the desperate drama playing out at the international airport in Kabul ends as President Joe Biden promised Sunday and America's Afghan allies are successfully evacuated, America must welcome them with open arms.  

It's something that should go without saying.

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This newsletter was compiled by Louie Villalobos