{"id":806343,"date":"2021-09-23T13:59:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=806343"},"modified":"2021-09-23T13:59:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:59:38","slug":"congress-hears-testimony-about-impact-of-covid-19-on-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-hears-testimony-about-impact-of-covid-19-on-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress hears testimony about impact of COVID-19 on kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongress-hears-testimony-about-impact-of-covid-19-on-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=806343&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2528731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2528731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this March 2, 2021, file photo, socially distanced and with protective partitions students work on an art project during class at the Sinaloa Middle School in Novato, Calif. (AP Photo\/Haven Daley, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:00 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, September 23, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Congress recently explored the impact of COVID-19 lockdown mandates on young Americans. On Wednesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee discussed the disruption of in-person learning and heard testimony from health experts.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tracy Hoeg warned school closures have actually damaged student\u2019s physical health. The physician went on to add, children continue to miss out on physical education classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s screen time, it\u2019s increasing amounts of abuse at home, it\u2019s poor diet,\u201d explained the doctor. \u201cYou know, kids when they\u2019re at home, their parents are usually working not inside of the house. And so, it\u2019s been concerning affect that kids are left to their own devices and not in P.E. or getting the same amounts of physical activity\u2026not going to out to recess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While taking to Twitter after the hearing, she said she cannot emphasize enough that \u201cschools are over-all safer than the community for kids both in terms of COVID and over-all health and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2. The message that schools are overall safer than the community for kids both in terms of COVID and overall health and safety needs to get out and can&#8217;t be emphasized enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tracy H\u00f8eg, MD, PhD (@TracyBethHoeg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TracyBethHoeg\/status\/1370519947848249344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4><strong>FULL HEARING \u2014 Putting Kids First: Addressing COVID-19\u2019s Impacts on Children<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Putting Kids First: Addressing COVID-19&#039;s Impacts on Children\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sqay0ul2TI4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/doj-could-prosecute-more-americans-than-taliban-over-fara\/\">DOJ Could Prosecute More Americans Than Taliban Over FARA<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 In this March 2, 2021, file photo, socially distanced and with protective partitions students work on an art project during class at the Sinaloa Middle School in Novato, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}