COVID deaths: more than 10 million children lost a parent or caregiver
Nature, September 16, 2022
Roughly 10.5 million children worldwide have a parent or caregiver who died from COVID-19, according to a modeling study, published Sept. 6 in JAMA Pediatrics. “I really appreciate this team’s effort to try to keep the issue of COVID-related orphans in front of the research and policy communities,” says Michael Goodman, an applied social epidemiologist at the University of Texas in Galveston. “We as a research community, as policy influencers — we as a society are not off the hook for these children.”