How the world's largest museum is encouraging kids to come up with their own COVID-19 action plan

Jun 4, 2020

The entrance to the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History, a permanent exhibition hall that presents the remarkable history of human evolution from our earliest ancestors millions of years ago to modern Homo sapiens, is seen in New York, February 7, 2007. The exhibit will open to the public on February 10, 2007. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES)

Smithsonian teams up with the World Health Organization to educate children about coronavirus. Image: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

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