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Don Brown has been driving a school bus for more than 20 years in the Chicago area. And for all that time, he s noticed one odd student habit.
As they climb aboard his bus, when they get to the top step, they always cough, he says. This was even before the pandemic! Or, when they get ready to get off, they say Bye, bus driver! and they cough.
Because of this, Brown says, he hopes he ll be getting the vaccine, as soon as I can.
As another semester gets under way, more than half of U.S. public school students are learning in front of tablets and laptops, according to the organization Burbio. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to try to open most schools within his first hundred days in office.
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In the latest Around Town column, news about the first baby of 2021 born at Stanford, a Palo Alto firefighter continuing his mission to raise awareness of suicides among first responders and a new housing project coming to the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.
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SLIDESHOW: Jaden Ramos was the first infant born at Lucile Packard Children s Hospital Stanford on Jan. 1. Courtesy Stanford Children s Health.
Leigh Santiago and Andrew Ramos welcomed their first child, Jalen Ramos, on Jan. 1. Courtesy Stanford Children s Health.