Speaker 1: Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day nine since
Speaker 1: coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Our main story. We're
Speaker 1: still learning about the effects that long term isolation is
Speaker 1: having on young children. Experts in many places still don't
Speaker 1: know whether school will resume in its normal form this fall,
Speaker 1: which could leave children and their parents trying to navigate
Speaker 1: a healthy quarantine lifestyle for months longer. But first, here's
Speaker 1: what happened today. Johnson and Johnson is accelerating trials of
Speaker 1: its COVID nineteen vaccine. The company's chief scientific officer says
Speaker 1: it's in a race against time because we could be
Speaker 1: facing a severe second wave of the virus this week.
Speaker 1: The farmer Giant said it would start human trials in
Speaker 1: the second half of July, about two months earlier than expected.
Speaker 1: Final stage tests could begin in September. Jay and Jay's
Speaker 1: vaccine is one of more than one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: in development against the novel coronavirus. According to the World
Speaker 1: Health Organization, the global economy is recovering from the pandemic
Speaker 1: more slowly than experts expected. The International Monetary Fund chief
Speaker 1: economist Gea Gopinav said today in a video that the
Speaker 1: economic outlook the FUN plans to release this month will
Speaker 1: likely be worse than what they predicted in April. She
Speaker 1: said the economy will probably bear scars from this downturn
Speaker 1: for a long time. I think there is a big
Speaker 1: question about what the recovery would look like, how much
Speaker 1: scarring there will be, and for how long. But you know,
Speaker 1: many of these variables points to see music in Scottia face.
Speaker 1: India's coronavirus infections rose by nearly eleven thousand to overtake
Speaker 1: the total number of recorded cases in the UK. That
Speaker 1: makes India the fourth worst affected nation in the world.
Speaker 1: After burgeoning infections in May and June, India now trails
Speaker 1: only the US, Brazil and Russia. Finally, even as economies reopen,
Speaker 1: tourists still seem skittish about flocking to the usual family attractions.
Speaker 1: Comcast Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure reopened in Florida
Speaker 1: last week, but the public's willingness to ride Dr Doom's
Speaker 1: fearfall is still eclipsed by concerns about the coronavirus. A
Speaker 1: study by Safe Graft data of cell phone signals from
Speaker 1: the park suggests that the park's crowds were about a
Speaker 1: fifth of what they were the same time last year,
Speaker 1: and now our main story. When the country went into
Speaker 1: lockdown this spring, it forced kids to adapt to a
Speaker 1: new life at home. The adjustment for them and their
Speaker 1: parents has been huge. Experts still aren't sure what will
Speaker 1: happen in the upcoming school year, meaning kids could be
Speaker 1: living in quarantine for much longer. Bloomberg reporter Kristen V.
Speaker 1: Brown has more on what we know about how children
Speaker 1: are coping with the virus so far and what parents
Speaker 1: can do to help them in the future. Julia and
Speaker 1: Elida are in the backyard of my Oakland co op
Speaker 1: building working on their own cure for the novel coronavirus.
Speaker 1: So when we give by walks, waddle and some clothes
Speaker 1: and mixing it and mixing it, mixing it to twy
Speaker 1: to think of it could book. Julia is seven and
Speaker 1: lives next door. Elida is nine and lives below me.
Speaker 1: And this cure is a complicated process. It also involves jewels.
Speaker 1: So we find these jewels and gems in the backyards
Speaker 1: sometimes and then theather like the coronavirus cure gems, and
Speaker 1: it's something sometimes work, but not all the time work.
Speaker 1: We have to sometimes mix the gems with water rocks
Speaker 1: and in clovers. The girls say they know they're cure
Speaker 1: is pretend, but it's their way of handling all of
Speaker 1: the changes brought on by the pandemic. They say quarantine
Speaker 1: is really getting to them. It's really really frustrating to me,
Speaker 1: and I just I really want to do the usual
Speaker 1: things I always wanted to do, like go to school,
Speaker 1: And sometimes it makes me super mad that I just
Speaker 1: want to punch it if it were a human. It's
Speaker 1: just not fair that coronavirus is going around, and I'm
Speaker 1: worried that we might. I'm worried that that could happen
Speaker 1: to us. Juliet and Elida are just like every child
Speaker 1: who woke up one day this March to a new normal.
Speaker 1: Frank Whorl is a psychologist at the University of California,
Speaker 1: Berkeley who focuses on kids. He says children tend to
Speaker 1: think of things in much more concrete terms, and that
Speaker 1: can make what's going on right now pretty confusing. We
Speaker 1: have this context as adults um that they don't have.
Speaker 1: The word pandemic is not a word that they understand um,
Speaker 1: and so so that's why, in some sense, for them,
Speaker 1: this is so peculiar, right, because they know something is happening,
Speaker 1: but they cannot see it, they can't touch it, but
Speaker 1: people are worried about it, and people are talking about
Speaker 1: it all the time. There's also the matter of how
Speaker 1: parents talk to their kids about what's happening. Julia an
Speaker 1: Elita's moms say they've tried to arm the girls with
Speaker 1: facts about what's going on and information about things they
Speaker 1: can do to help, like washing their hands. Here are
Speaker 1: the girls explaining the virus to me. Well, um, the
Speaker 1: coronavirus is like super tiny, but there's little cells that
Speaker 1: move around in the air and they're super duper time.
Speaker 1: You can't even see them. They're like really really really
Speaker 1: really really small, but you know that they are because
Speaker 1: you you can't touch them, but they are touching you,
Speaker 1: but you don't know. Elida told me that she had
Speaker 1: been watching kids coronavirus explainers on YouTube like this one.
Speaker 1: Heat friends, I'm sure is the past few weeks you
Speaker 1: have heard a lot about this new disease called corona virus.
Speaker 1: So this is a clip from the Doctor Bannocks Show,
Speaker 1: a kid's science program. The video has almost five million views.
Speaker 1: The show is bright and colorful and starts a cartoon
Speaker 1: with binoculars for eyes, but it's also filled with information.
Speaker 1: It explains everything from the virus is spread in Wuhan, China,
Speaker 1: to its symptoms. Frank the psychologist says parents should be
Speaker 1: upfront with their kids and explain what's going on. You
Speaker 1: want to give them enough information that they can get
Speaker 1: an understanding for it given their developmental age, but not
Speaker 1: enough information is to worry them. Frank also says that
Speaker 1: one thing parents can really do to help their kids
Speaker 1: cope is stick to a routine. That routine helps give
Speaker 1: them a sense of control. Right, it is not necessarily
Speaker 1: going to stop them missing school, but it will reduce
Speaker 1: the amount of times that they will get upset. Right too,
Speaker 1: we still do not know. I mean, the experts are
Speaker 1: still not sure if school is going to be normal
Speaker 1: in the four So this could be a longer term
Speaker 1: strategy for Julia Nilida. There After school, science job has
Speaker 1: become an important part of their routine, they are still
Speaker 1: hard at work perfecting their cure. The first step is
Speaker 1: that we combine the gems together and then make one
Speaker 1: big gem. The second step is putting rocks and water
Speaker 1: in the cup. The third step is to put the
Speaker 1: gems in the cup while as you put the clovers in,
Speaker 1: and then the fourth step is to mix it around
Speaker 1: straight for like like a half an hour, and then
Speaker 1: the fifth step. The final fifth step is to put
Speaker 1: the coronavirus on you and then test it on your
Speaker 1: arm to see if it works. The girls say they
Speaker 1: are making good progress on the care and even if
Speaker 1: it's just pretend, they at least seem to have found
Speaker 1: an antidote to the coronavirus blues. That was Kristin V.
Speaker 1: Brown and that's our show today, and for coverage of
Speaker 1: the outbreak from one twenty bureaus around the world, visit
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Speaker 1: produced by Topher Foreheads Jordan Gospure, Magnus Hendrickson and me
Speaker 1: Laura Carlson. Today's main story was reported by Kristin V. Brown.
Speaker 1: Original music by Leo Sidrin. Our editors are Francesco Levi
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