As a new coronavirus spreads in China , I covered the SARS _________ in 2002 and 2003 during which a novel coronavirus first _______in Guangdong . My two children attended elementary school in Beijing throughout the outbreak.The International School of Beijing, where my children were students, was one of the few in the capital that stayed open __________ the SARS outbreak . The school instituted a bunch of simple ___________ policies: a stern note to parents reminding them not to send a child to school who was sick and warning them that students would be ________ for fevers with ear thermometers at the school door.There was no sharing of food at lunch . The teacher led the kids in frequent ___________ throughout the day at classroom sinks, while singing a prolonged “hand washing song” to ensure they did more than a cursory pass under the faucet with water only.With those precautions in place, I observed something of a public health __________: Not only did no child get SARS, but it seemed no student was sick with anything at all for months on end.The World Health Organization declared the SARS outbreak ____________ in July 2003. But, oh, that those habits ______. The best first-line defenses against SARS or the new coronavirus or most any virus at all are the ones that Grandma and ________________ taught us, after all.