WEBVTT - The Effect of Quarantine on Kids 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:12.320 Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day nine since 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:17.720 coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Our main story. We're 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.239 still learning about the effects that long term isolation is 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.680 having on young children. Experts in many places still don't 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:29.320 know whether school will resume in its normal form this fall, 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.800 which could leave children and their parents trying to navigate 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:40.440 a healthy quarantine lifestyle for months longer. But first, here's 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:51.159 what happened today. Johnson and Johnson is accelerating trials of 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:55.880 its COVID nineteen vaccine. The company's chief scientific officer says 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.760 it's in a race against time because we could be 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:03.400 facing a severe second wave of the virus this week. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.319 The farmer Giant said it would start human trials in 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:11.160 the second half of July, about two months earlier than expected. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:17.480 Final stage tests could begin in September. Jay and Jay's 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.200 vaccine is one of more than one hundred and thirty 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.480 in development against the novel coronavirus. According to the World 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:29.280 Health Organization, the global economy is recovering from the pandemic 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:34.280 more slowly than experts expected. The International Monetary Fund chief 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.560 economist Gea Gopinav said today in a video that the 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.399 economic outlook the FUN plans to release this month will 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.560 likely be worse than what they predicted in April. She 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.280 said the economy will probably bear scars from this downturn 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.840 for a long time. I think there is a big 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.280 question about what the recovery would look like, how much 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.160 scarring there will be, and for how long. But you know, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.280 many of these variables points to see music in Scottia face. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:06.520 India's coronavirus infections rose by nearly eleven thousand to overtake 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:11.280 the total number of recorded cases in the UK. That 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.120 makes India the fourth worst affected nation in the world. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.480 After burgeoning infections in May and June, India now trails 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:27.680 only the US, Brazil and Russia. Finally, even as economies reopen, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:32.920 tourists still seem skittish about flocking to the usual family attractions. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:39.280 Comcast Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure reopened in Florida 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.520 last week, but the public's willingness to ride Dr Doom's 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:49.040 fearfall is still eclipsed by concerns about the coronavirus. A 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.800 study by Safe Graft data of cell phone signals from 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.160 the park suggests that the park's crowds were about a 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.919 fifth of what they were the same time last year, 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:12.040 and now our main story. When the country went into 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.000 lockdown this spring, it forced kids to adapt to a 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:19.040 new life at home. The adjustment for them and their 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.480 parents has been huge. Experts still aren't sure what will 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.560 happen in the upcoming school year, meaning kids could be 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.720 living in quarantine for much longer. Bloomberg reporter Kristen V. 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.800 Brown has more on what we know about how children 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.960 are coping with the virus so far and what parents 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:46.240 can do to help them in the future. Julia and 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.840 Elida are in the backyard of my Oakland co op 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.960 building working on their own cure for the novel coronavirus. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.720 So when we give by walks, waddle and some clothes 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:05.560 and mixing it and mixing it, mixing it to twy 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:11.560 to think of it could book. Julia is seven and 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.080 lives next door. Elida is nine and lives below me. 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.680 And this cure is a complicated process. It also involves jewels. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.480 So we find these jewels and gems in the backyards 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:30.039 sometimes and then theather like the coronavirus cure gems, and 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.559 it's something sometimes work, but not all the time work. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:40.160 We have to sometimes mix the gems with water rocks 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:45.080 and in clovers. The girls say they know they're cure 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.159 is pretend, but it's their way of handling all of 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.880 the changes brought on by the pandemic. They say quarantine 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:57.719 is really getting to them. It's really really frustrating to me, 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.159 and I just I really want to do the usual 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.719 things I always wanted to do, like go to school, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:09.000 And sometimes it makes me super mad that I just 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.800 want to punch it if it were a human. It's 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:18.200 just not fair that coronavirus is going around, and I'm 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:22.440 worried that we might. I'm worried that that could happen 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:29.159 to us. Juliet and Elida are just like every child 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.320 who woke up one day this March to a new normal. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.000 Frank Whorl is a psychologist at the University of California, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.080 Berkeley who focuses on kids. He says children tend to 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.640 think of things in much more concrete terms, and that 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.919 can make what's going on right now pretty confusing. We 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.680 have this context as adults um that they don't have. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.360 The word pandemic is not a word that they understand um, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.480 and so so that's why, in some sense, for them, 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:04.200 this is so peculiar, right, because they know something is happening, 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.919 but they cannot see it, they can't touch it, but 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.239 people are worried about it, and people are talking about 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.000 it all the time. There's also the matter of how 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.719 parents talk to their kids about what's happening. Julia an 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.479 Elita's moms say they've tried to arm the girls with 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.880 facts about what's going on and information about things they 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.400 can do to help, like washing their hands. Here are 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.440 the girls explaining the virus to me. Well, um, the 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:35.160 coronavirus is like super tiny, but there's little cells that 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.800 move around in the air and they're super duper time. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.080 You can't even see them. They're like really really really 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.440 really really small, but you know that they are because 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.400 you you can't touch them, but they are touching you, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.600 but you don't know. Elida told me that she had 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.640 been watching kids coronavirus explainers on YouTube like this one. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.920 Heat friends, I'm sure is the past few weeks you 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:06.640 have heard a lot about this new disease called corona virus. 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.480 So this is a clip from the Doctor Bannocks Show, 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:15.400 a kid's science program. The video has almost five million views. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.240 The show is bright and colorful and starts a cartoon 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:23.280 with binoculars for eyes, but it's also filled with information. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.120 It explains everything from the virus is spread in Wuhan, China, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.760 to its symptoms. Frank the psychologist says parents should be 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.480 upfront with their kids and explain what's going on. You 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.120 want to give them enough information that they can get 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.680 an understanding for it given their developmental age, but not 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.280 enough information is to worry them. Frank also says that 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.600 one thing parents can really do to help their kids 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.160 cope is stick to a routine. That routine helps give 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:55.120 them a sense of control. Right, it is not necessarily 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.600 going to stop them missing school, but it will reduce 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.240 the amount of times that they will get upset. Right too, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.400 we still do not know. I mean, the experts are 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.720 still not sure if school is going to be normal 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.160 in the four So this could be a longer term 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:17.240 strategy for Julia Nilida. There After school, science job has 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.680 become an important part of their routine, they are still 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.520 hard at work perfecting their cure. The first step is 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.600 that we combine the gems together and then make one 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:35.560 big gem. The second step is putting rocks and water 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:41.520 in the cup. The third step is to put the 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.760 gems in the cup while as you put the clovers in, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:50.839 and then the fourth step is to mix it around 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:55.760 straight for like like a half an hour, and then 0:08:55.800 --> 0:09:00.920 the fifth step. The final fifth step is to put 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.280 the coronavirus on you and then test it on your 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.960 arm to see if it works. The girls say they 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.840 are making good progress on the care and even if 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.560 it's just pretend, they at least seem to have found 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:23.040 an antidote to the coronavirus blues. 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