Let’s send kids back to school safely

New reports based on infor-mation from the Iowa Depart-ment of Public Health suggest that current COVID-19 condi-tions may be worse than we’ve been led to believe. It appears some new cases and deaths have been backdated, making it difficult to know how current circumstances are playing out.

I continue to practice pre-ventive health measures, in-cluding:

• Wearing a mask

• Keeping distance from others in public places

• Washing my hands fre-quently