One out of 8 people suffering from hunger. Programs fighting over go. Join the fight. What does it mean to grow up in the middle of a pandemic it still has to be a time of learning experimenting and discovering its just not as it once was school isnt the same forming friendships is different now to the kind of childhood young people now have will shape their adult lives socially and economically how to best prepare them. Welcome to the w scolded 19 special im joined now on thanks for joining us its obviously not the same for children everywhere but some of them are lucky digital offerings allow them to keep learning virtually during School Closures however its not a system without flaws as one family here in germany has found out. The humility jetsunma come at. This early in families using smartphones and flip charts as they try to organize daily school life during the coronavirus pandemic using messaging Services Like watts up video games and education ops its an unusual situation for both parents and children. Of course we have concerns biggest fear is that they will become dependent that they wont be able to stop playing or watching videos were also worried about content games and apps they use. The family has imposed rules every evening the mobile phones have to be put away also the children may only install ops once their parents are free doc says using the parental control function. Time using the phone is limited to 2 hours the parents also monitor this using an up because of Digital Learning the eldest daughter was often online for lengthy periods. I thought at times i found it a bit annoying to be stuck at my computer the whole day off the day i was home alone for lengthy periods as my parents found that my siblings were in emergency child care isnt own but it was good not to have to want to call the way to school and i could sleep in until 7 am. Her sister 1st started using a smartphone during the Coronavirus Crisis. Hosmer teachers courses for young adults on how to use smartphones and other Digital Tools in his experience children can learn a lot this way. And i think its more important that parents try to understand rather than prohibit if you know what your children are doing on the internet what they might be afraid of what they dont understand and what confuses them and they can better understand what their children want what motivates them and lead them in productive ways. When. The family has discovered a cooking up today vegetarian burritos walk amole are on the menu. But no smartphones off the table during the meal. Today School Children will eventually grow up and adult sized problems perhaps bigger than the ones we never know how to look. Vast sums of being spent to bail out the ravaged economy hundreds of billions of euros in germany. In india. In china. Than dimming United States trillions. Governments have to borrow most of this money but who will pay that debt back. Todays elderly for todays young. Much public debt only comes dean decades later that means todays young will carry the can in many countries. There is already a shortage of jobs and training opportunities higher taxes and spending cuts are quite likely in the future so are todays materials the main losers in the Coronavirus Crisis. You will. Not necessarily they might also stand to benefit if investment is focused on shaping the future. Education digitalisation environmental protection. If firms are kept going through the process drugs should become available again code is of government bonds should eventually get paid out for days young will inherit public debt but some of them will also inherit government bonds so members of the same generation will be paying each other back. If an economy grows strongly repaying debt wont be a huge problem. Protracted crisis by contrast would be a disaster. Bankruptcies mass unemployment would be much muscle coming generations than inheriting a pile of public debt. Professor noguera vice one is the director of the ethos center for the economics of education and he joins us now professor of us spend there currently researching on the effects of the Coronavirus Crisis on the Younger Generation are you worried about the current lack of classroom education for many schoolchildren but i certainly am so worldwide more than one and a half 1000000000 schoolchildren. Affected by the School Closures and they are meant to do this work at home right nobody actually know very little about all thats working i mean how many of the children have regular online instruction or how many are just left on their own for germany we have just done a major study where we surveyed more than a 1000 parents about how they out were actually spending the time during the School Closures what we learned is that the time that spent student spent on school actually have to ring that doing the koran out times 38 percent of students in germany study for at most 2 hours per day during the School Closures 3 quarters or at most 4 hours they actually spend much more time on t. V. Or on the Computer Games on mobile phones that increase from fallers to much more than 5 or a small weaker students were particular lead affected and replaced learning with oppressive activities we also asked what the schools were actually doing during those times and actually 45 percent off students even in germany never had any shared online lessons during those times only 6 percent had it on a daily basis and even less often that students have individual contact with their teachers and that of course is not a very good way to learn. Thats not a good way to learn as you say in kenya already tell us what kind of hit to the economy people experience that todays children dont receive the kind of comprehensive education and training they will need later on while research has shown that the basic skills of the population a probably the most important long term determinant of Economic Growth of a country and therefore the prosperity of our society youre going to use these empirical effects that you have to project out to future growth and if you assume that the currently hits unocal hot like just 12 quarts get a loss due to the corona and used School Closures off about a 3rd office cool years learning and then actually assume that everybody afterwards returned spec to normal now and even such a thing or you know one year the total Economic Loss of more than one per cent of future g. D. P. So this is not just a one time loss as we currently have in our economies but this is going to be staying there for ever these mean several trillion dollars for most Major Economies today skill schoolchildren are of course tomorrows workforce and theyll be saddled with paying off the billions and pandemic debt that their countries have encouraged in order to safeguard their economies so firstly they already saw their prospects worsen when they were young only to have to shoulder this debt into adulthood what do you think that will do to society if you lose a 3rd of a school year of learning than this is generally associated with never an issue with an income loss in the future of about 3 to 4 percent or never but then again over the entire working life so it would really mean that the individual students who are hit right now will just on everetts have b. V. Less prosperous will be. Doing not as well as if they would have gotten a normal education is there any way to head off these negative outcomes for young people and i think we have to try to do everything to enable trigger and to learn again and right now really so wherever its possible if the. Virus iteration allows that we should try to open up schools where this is not feasible schools really need to switch to online teaching right away it is important that the kids are not left on their own again and teachers have to explain the material and i call the kids are doing we have to make sure that we make up the lost material that we should focus particularly on the basic skills that are the foundation for additional learning and to make schools even better in the future more effective in helping kids to learn and i think we need to provide particularly Additional Support for the weeks you profess are not going fast none of the info center for the economics of education thanks here in cyprus. There are questions now andersons correspondent derrick williams. Can you tell us more about dixon meth as a. Dexa meth as own as one of the drugs that doctors now prescribe at that critical stage of coke at 19 that i just mentioned when the immune system has gone into overdrive and starts attacking healthy tissue and the body a major study in britain thats still in Peer Reviewed discovered that in critically ill patients who need respiratory support the compounds lowers mortality by between a 5th and and a 3rd which is actually pretty huge thats a meth is known as whats known as a corticosteroid and its widely used to treat many different conditions that cause painful or dangerous inflammation its also and immuno suppressant so it can help calm down the immune system when its running a mock but that also makes doctors wary about about giving patients the drug too early when the immune system needs to be active its not a new drug but one thats been approved for use for well over 50 years now so so its cheap its widely available and perhaps most importantly production of it can be can be ramped up quickly. 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