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Caregiver death increases risks of short-term trauma and lifelong adverse consequences for children. One micro-simulation research letter estimated parental deaths in the U.S. to Feb 2021. A global study aggregated COVID-associated orphanhood and co-resident caregiver deaths across 21 countries.
This report captures overall and U.S. state-specific findings, disaggregated by race/ethnicity, for COVID-19-associated orphanhood and death of grandparent caregivers. High rates of orphanhood, marked disparities, and state-specific differences show the overlooked burden among children at…
The Biden administration is moving to end sweeping pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 on May 23. The official announcement came Friday in an order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The spread of COVID-19 by migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border has "ceased to be a serious danger to the public health," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky wrote.
Since March 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has used the…
As many as 20% of all child deaths from Covid in the US have occurred during the Omicron surge of the pandemic.
Children seem to be facing increasing risks from COVID-19 even as mask mandates drop across the country, and vaccination rates among children stall out at alarmingly low rates.
“We saw a massive surge of hospitalized young children during Omicron that we didn’t see in the earlier months of the pandemic,” said Jason Kane, a pediatric intensivist and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago Comer children’s hospital.
Omicron was first identified in…
As many as a third of all child deaths from Covid in the US have occurred during the Omicron surge of the pandemic.
Children seem to be facing increasing risks from Covid-19 even as mask mandates drop across the country, and vaccination rates among children stall out at alarmingly low rates.
A new report from Coram Voice has found that during the Covid pandemic, care leavers’ well-being did not decline and in some areas improved slightly, suggesting additional support made available at this time made a valuable difference to young people’s lives.
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on care leavers’ well-being is a follow up to Coram…
New York families have been caught in a web of child protective services that disproportionately affects poor families of color. Last fall, the city government issued guidance discouraging educators from reporting parents who kept kids home out of fear when schools reopened. But that has not been enough to stop families motivated by COVID-19 concerns from getting caught up in the web of child protective services – a blunt instrument that disproportionately targets low-income families of color who have already suffered the most harm during the pandemic.
For the past two years, large parts of American society have decided harming children was an unavoidable side effect of Covid-19. And that was probably true in the spring of 2020, when nearly all of society shut down to slow the spread of a deadly and mysterious virus.
But the approach has been less defensible for the past year and a half, as we have learned more about both Covid and the extent of children’s suffering from pandemic restrictions.
In a tiny house on the outskirts of Lima, Gabriela Zarate lives with her husband and eight children. Four are her own. The other four, two girls aged seven and 15, and two boys aged nine and 12, are the children of her younger sister, Katherine.
It is hard to squeeze them all in. The boys sleep two to a bunk bed, with the girls sharing a tiny room at the back of the house. "It's always been a struggle to put food on the table for my family," Gabriela says, "and with four more children it's even more difficult".
In June 2020, when Peru was already struggling to contain…
The number of U.S. children orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic may be larger than previously estimated, and the toll has been far greater among Black and Hispanic Americans, a new study suggests. More than half the children who lost a primary caregiver during the pandemic belonged to those two racial groups, which make up about 40% of the U.S. population, according to the study published 7 October, 2021 by the medical journal Pediatrics.
"Researchers now estimate that more than 40,000 children in the United States have lost a parent to Covid-19," says this article from Vox. "Per the estimates, published recently in JAMA Pediatrics, for every 13 people who die of Covid-19 in the US, one person under the age of 18 loses a parent."