About 5.2 million children have lost a parent or caregiver during the pandemic, according to a new study published in The Lancet medical journal.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended many Americans wait up to eight weeks, instead of three to four weeks, between their first and second shots of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.Approximately 5.2 million children have lost a parent or caregiver during the pandemic, according to a new study publishedAn analysis by the same team of researchers in July 2021 had estimated 1.
The number of children who lost at least one parent at the end of the first 20-months of the pandemic was greater than the total number of COVID deaths, and this gap is increasing, according to the study.Funeral director Kristy Oliver and funeral attendant Sam Deras load the casket of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 into a hearse at East County Mortuary, Jan. 15, 2021, in El Cajon, Calif.
“COVID-related orphanhood does not come in waves," Hillis said."It is a steadily rising slope with the summit still out of our sight.” Although many may recover from an infection, losing a parent is not something that can be easily recovered from, she said. While authors continue to call for equitable access to vaccines and treatment globally, the millions of children already orphaned still need support, they said.A child looks up at his mother during a double funeral service for Lola M. Simmons-Jones and her daughter Lashaye Antoinette Allen, who both died of coronavirus, at the Denley Drive Missionary Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, July 30, 2020.
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