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Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus

Updated on March 16 at 1:56 p.m. ET. This comic has been updated.Click here for the newest version.

Kids, this comic is for you.

It's based on a radio story that NPR education reporter Cory Turner did. He asked some experts what kids might want to know about the new coronavirus discovered in China.

To make this comic, we've used his interviews with Tara Powell at the University of Illinois School of Social Work, Joy Osofsky at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans and Krystal Lewis at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Print and fold a zine version of this comic here. Here are directions on how to fold it. To read this comic in Chinese, click here.To read it in Spanish, click here.

/ Malaka Gharib/ NPR
/ Malaka Gharib/ NPR
/ Malaka Gharib/ NPR
/ Malaka Gharib/ NPR
/ Malaka Gharib/ NPR

Malaka Gharib is an NPR editor and the author and illustrator ofI Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, about being first-generation Filipino Egyptian American.

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Malaka Gharib
Malaka Gharib is the digital editor of the NPR podcast Life Kit.
Cory Turner edits and reports for the NPR Ed team.
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