ABSTRACT
Furthermore, we are only beginning to appreciate the severity of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC, post-COVID or long-COVID) that can affect many body systems and cause neurological (brain fog, headache, anosmia), respiratory (fatigue), gastrointestinal, metabolic (diabetes), and cardiovascular symptoms (e.g., cerebrovascular disorders, dysrhythmias, inflammatory heart disease;Xie et al. 2022). New variants may continue to become more resistant to vaccines and even more transmissible, and some carriers do not display symptoms. [...]masking (CDC 2022) will be an important part of my "personal protection plan" for the foreseeable future. [...]I include discussions of COVID-19 and prevention practices in my teaching and with middle school teachers in our professional development programs (Folk, van Garderen, and Lannin 2018).