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