Interview - Miriam Calleja Shaw

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You have recently published a book called COVID-19and the Virus that Shook the World . It provides a sobering look at virus infections and pandemics, with particular emphasis on the COVID-19 strain. Presently, the cases have diminished in Europe but the spread has moved elsewhere. However, how safe is ‘safe’ at the moment? With the way things are evolving with the ’new’ coronavirus, it’s very difficult to answer this question. The WHO just last weekend warned that the worst may be yet to come. We are certainly witnessing an atrocious amount of deaths and illness in the US. We don’t yet know with certainty which factors are affecting the progression of the pandemic. Indeed we don’t even know about all the symptoms that appear with COVID-19 infection. The relative ‘safety’ is different for everyone, depending on the state of their immunity and certain other factors. For a person with average health who isn’t too old, the danger of getting severely ill may be low – but we need to
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Oliver Jeffers reads his own stories!

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Image result for stuck jeffersSuper popular author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers is reading a story a day. This happens on his Instagram feed so you need to have an account to watch it live. This is what he says:

 Today’s #stayathomestorytime will be Stuck
See you on Instagram Live at
6pm GMT / 2pm EST/ 11am PST.
It’ll be up on my stories for 24 hours and on my site afterwards.
Instead of questions today, send in your favorite joke, and I’ll read some of them out. As ever, pop them below.

 Today's book is STUCK. The reading will start at 1900 our time. You can find the link to his Instagram HERE. But if you want to see his other stories as well, you can click right to his SITE and find them there.

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