The impact of Covid-19 on all walks of life includes big changes for those that walk on all fours and the people who care for them.

"Should I send my kids back to school this fall?"

Of all the Covid-19 questions that I'm asked as a family medicine physician, this is the hardest to answer.

South Fork school district officials have been working nonstop over the last several weeks to determine reopening plans, which were due in to the state by July 31, but regardless of the details, all of the plans may as well have a big asterisk on the first page, because Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is expected to make a big school-related announcement Friday.