So you're going to drop the "essentially" and the fact that he's using it to talk about keeping kids away from the vulnerable? Oh, and putting something in quo

So you're going to drop the "essentially" and the fact that he's using it to talk about keeping kids away from the vulnerable? Oh, and putting something in quotes generally means it's a quote. A quote is not something which could be read as equivalent. So, no, they are not identical. And from context you can also tell he's talking about otherwise healthy kids -- the "essentially" part of the actual quote.