The Effect of Quarantine on Kids
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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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. Kristen V. Brown reports on what we how children are coping with the virus so far.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you looking for a new podcast about stuff related to money? |
| 0:05.3 | Well, today's your lucky day. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Matt Levine. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Katie Greifeld. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are the hosts of Money Stuff, The Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Every Friday, we dive into the top stories about Wall Street, finance, and other stuff. |
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| 0:26.4 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 93 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:44.3 | Our main story? We're still learning about the effects that long-term isolation is having on young children. |
| 0:52.3 | Experts in many places still don't know whether school will resume in its normal form this fall, |
| 1:00.0 | which could leave children and their parents trying to navigate a healthy quarantine lifestyle |
| 1:06.0 | for months longer. |
| 1:09.0 | But first, here's what happened today. |
| 1:18.5 | Johnson & Johnson is accelerating trials of its COVID-19 vaccine. The company's chief |
| 1:24.4 | scientific officer says it's in a race against time, because we could be |
| 1:28.8 | facing a severe second wave of the virus. This week, the pharma giant said it would start |
| 1:35.2 | human trials in the second half of July, about two months earlier than expected. Final stage |
| 1:42.8 | tests could begin in September. |
| 1:46.9 | J&J's vaccine is one of more than 130 in development against the novel coronavirus, |
| 1:53.2 | according to the World Health Organization. The global economy is recovering from the pandemic |
| 1:59.2 | more slowly than experts expected. |
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