1 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day nine since 2 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Our main story. We're 3 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: still learning about the effects that long term isolation is 4 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: having on young children. Experts in many places still don't 5 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: know whether school will resume in its normal form this fall, 6 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: which could leave children and their parents trying to navigate 7 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: a healthy quarantine lifestyle for months longer. But first, here's 8 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: what happened today. Johnson and Johnson is accelerating trials of 9 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: its COVID nineteen vaccine. The company's chief scientific officer says 10 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: it's in a race against time because we could be 11 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: facing a severe second wave of the virus this week. 12 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: The farmer Giant said it would start human trials in 13 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: the second half of July, about two months earlier than expected. 14 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: Final stage tests could begin in September. Jay and Jay's 15 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: vaccine is one of more than one hundred and thirty 16 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: in development against the novel coronavirus. According to the World 17 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: Health Organization, the global economy is recovering from the pandemic 18 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: more slowly than experts expected. The International Monetary Fund chief 19 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: economist Gea Gopinav said today in a video that the 20 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: economic outlook the FUN plans to release this month will 21 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: likely be worse than what they predicted in April. She 22 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: said the economy will probably bear scars from this downturn 23 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: for a long time. I think there is a big 24 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: question about what the recovery would look like, how much 25 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: scarring there will be, and for how long. But you know, 26 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: many of these variables points to see music in Scottia face. 27 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: India's coronavirus infections rose by nearly eleven thousand to overtake 28 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: the total number of recorded cases in the UK. That 29 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: makes India the fourth worst affected nation in the world. 30 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: After burgeoning infections in May and June, India now trails 31 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: only the US, Brazil and Russia. Finally, even as economies reopen, 32 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: tourists still seem skittish about flocking to the usual family attractions. 33 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: Comcast Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure reopened in Florida 34 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: last week, but the public's willingness to ride Dr Doom's 35 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: fearfall is still eclipsed by concerns about the coronavirus. A 36 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: study by Safe Graft data of cell phone signals from 37 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: the park suggests that the park's crowds were about a 38 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: fifth of what they were the same time last year, 39 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: and now our main story. When the country went into 40 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: lockdown this spring, it forced kids to adapt to a 41 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: new life at home. The adjustment for them and their 42 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: parents has been huge. Experts still aren't sure what will 43 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: happen in the upcoming school year, meaning kids could be 44 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: living in quarantine for much longer. Bloomberg reporter Kristen V. 45 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: Brown has more on what we know about how children 46 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: are coping with the virus so far and what parents 47 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: can do to help them in the future. Julia and 48 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: Elida are in the backyard of my Oakland co op 49 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: building working on their own cure for the novel coronavirus. 50 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: So when we give by walks, waddle and some clothes 51 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: and mixing it and mixing it, mixing it to twy 52 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: to think of it could book. Julia is seven and 53 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: lives next door. Elida is nine and lives below me. 54 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: And this cure is a complicated process. It also involves jewels. 55 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: So we find these jewels and gems in the backyards 56 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 1: sometimes and then theather like the coronavirus cure gems, and 57 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,559 Speaker 1: it's something sometimes work, but not all the time work. 58 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: We have to sometimes mix the gems with water rocks 59 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: and in clovers. The girls say they know they're cure 60 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 1: is pretend, but it's their way of handling all of 61 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: the changes brought on by the pandemic. They say quarantine 62 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: is really getting to them. It's really really frustrating to me, 63 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: and I just I really want to do the usual 64 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: things I always wanted to do, like go to school, 65 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: And sometimes it makes me super mad that I just 66 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: want to punch it if it were a human. It's 67 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: just not fair that coronavirus is going around, and I'm 68 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: worried that we might. I'm worried that that could happen 69 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: to us. Juliet and Elida are just like every child 70 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: who woke up one day this March to a new normal. 71 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: Frank Whorl is a psychologist at the University of California, 72 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: Berkeley who focuses on kids. He says children tend to 73 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: think of things in much more concrete terms, and that 74 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,919 Speaker 1: can make what's going on right now pretty confusing. We 75 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: have this context as adults um that they don't have. 76 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: The word pandemic is not a word that they understand um, 77 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: and so so that's why, in some sense, for them, 78 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: this is so peculiar, right, because they know something is happening, 79 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 1: but they cannot see it, they can't touch it, but 80 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,239 Speaker 1: people are worried about it, and people are talking about 81 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: it all the time. There's also the matter of how 82 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: parents talk to their kids about what's happening. Julia an 83 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 1: Elita's moms say they've tried to arm the girls with 84 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: facts about what's going on and information about things they 85 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: can do to help, like washing their hands. Here are 86 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: the girls explaining the virus to me. Well, um, the 87 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: coronavirus is like super tiny, but there's little cells that 88 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: move around in the air and they're super duper time. 89 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: You can't even see them. They're like really really really 90 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: really really small, but you know that they are because 91 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: you you can't touch them, but they are touching you, 92 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: but you don't know. Elida told me that she had 93 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: been watching kids coronavirus explainers on YouTube like this one. 94 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: Heat friends, I'm sure is the past few weeks you 95 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: have heard a lot about this new disease called corona virus. 96 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: So this is a clip from the Doctor Bannocks Show, 97 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: a kid's science program. The video has almost five million views. 98 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: The show is bright and colorful and starts a cartoon 99 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: with binoculars for eyes, but it's also filled with information. 100 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: It explains everything from the virus is spread in Wuhan, China, 101 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: to its symptoms. Frank the psychologist says parents should be 102 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: upfront with their kids and explain what's going on. You 103 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: want to give them enough information that they can get 104 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: an understanding for it given their developmental age, but not 105 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: enough information is to worry them. Frank also says that 106 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: one thing parents can really do to help their kids 107 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: cope is stick to a routine. That routine helps give 108 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: them a sense of control. Right, it is not necessarily 109 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: going to stop them missing school, but it will reduce 110 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: the amount of times that they will get upset. Right too, 111 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: we still do not know. I mean, the experts are 112 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: still not sure if school is going to be normal 113 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: in the four So this could be a longer term 114 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: strategy for Julia Nilida. There After school, science job has 115 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: become an important part of their routine, they are still 116 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: hard at work perfecting their cure. The first step is 117 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: that we combine the gems together and then make one 118 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 1: big gem. The second step is putting rocks and water 119 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: in the cup. The third step is to put the 120 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: gems in the cup while as you put the clovers in, 121 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,839 Speaker 1: and then the fourth step is to mix it around 122 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: straight for like like a half an hour, and then 123 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: the fifth step. The final fifth step is to put 124 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: the coronavirus on you and then test it on your 125 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: arm to see if it works. The girls say they 126 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: are making good progress on the care and even if 127 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: it's just pretend, they at least seem to have found 128 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: an antidote to the coronavirus blues. That was Kristin V. 129 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: Brown and that's our show today, and for coverage of 130 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: the outbreak from one twenty bureaus around the world, visit 131 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 1: bloomberg dot com slash coronavirus and if you like the show, 132 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: please leave us a review and a rating on Apple 133 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: Podcasts or Spotify. 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