A âstaggeringâ 40,000 children in the U.S. have lost at least one parent to coronavirus, three-quarters of them teenagers, a new model has calculated.
Researchers at Stony Brook University on Long Island estimated the number of children of each adult to have died of COVID-19 and extrapolated to arrive at that conclusion.
The model suggested that each such death left 0.078 children between infancy and age 17 âparentally bereaved,â the researchers said in a letter published in JAMA Pediatrics, 17.5% to 20.2% more than it would have been without COVID-19.
âAlthough the bereavement multiplier is small, it translates into large numbers of children who have lost a parent,â wrote Rachel Kidman of the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University. âAs of February 2021, 37â¯300 children aged 0 to 17 years had lost at least 1 parent due to COVID-19, three-quarters of whom were adolescents.â
Published April 6, 2021, 11:06 AM
A staggering 40,000 children have lost at least one parent to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to a new research letter published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
A police personnel ties a mask on the face of a child during an awareness campaign against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Amritsar on April 4, 2021. (Photo by NARINDER NANU / AFP)
“The number of children experiencing a parent dying of COVID-19 is staggering, with an estimated 37,300 to 43,000 already affected,” said the research letter, led by Rachel Kidman of the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University. “Black children are disproportionately affected, comprising only 14 percent of children in the US but 20 percent of those losing a parent to COVID-19.”
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