Study quantifies how many children in the U.S. have lost a parent during Covid-19 pandemic
A letter published in
JAMA Pediatrics, co-authored by Rachel Kidman, PhD, of the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University, presents a statistical model showing that around 40,000 children (est. between 37,000 and 43,000) had lost a parent due to the Covid-19 pandemic by February 2021. This amounts to an average of one child losing a parent for every 13 Covid-19 deaths.
Children face immense challenges in the wake of the pandemic. While there have been anecdotal reports of children losing parents, this is the first study to estimate the increase in orphan rates nationwide. The authors also published an Op Ed in the
roceeds from May 6 Virtual Event to Benefit Student Scholarships at Stony Brook University
The Stony Brook Foundation will raise critical funds for student scholarships at its 22nd Annual Stars of Stony Brook Gala held virtually on Thursday, May 6, 2021.
As a special feature of this year’s program, renowned actor Alan Alda, co-founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and 2013 Gala honoree, will introduce guests to Stony Brook University’s new president, Maurie McInnis. During their candid conversation, Alda and McInnis will discuss everything from improvisation and the power of curiosity to the realities of life in a pandemic.
Approximately 40,000 children in the United States may have lost a parent to COVID-19 since February 2020, according to a statistical model.
The researchers anticipate that without immediate interventions, the trauma from losing a parent could cast a shadow of mental health and economic problems well into the future for this vulnerable population.
In the researchers’ model, for approximately every 13th COVID-related death, a child loses one parent. Children who lose a parent have a higher risk of a range of problems, including traumatic prolonged grief and depression, lower educational attainment, economic insecurity, and accidental death or suicide, says Ashton Verdery, associate professor of sociology, demography, and social data analytics at Penn State.
These mutations occur in more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases and drastically reduce response to immunotherapy.
A new study in
Nature Communications takes an initial step toward better understanding how KRAS drives immune evasion and demonstrates a lowering of the KRAS activity resulting in a more favorable immune environment to fight cancer.
Previous strategies to block the KRAS oncogene therapeutically have focused on counteracting its growth-promoting role in cancer.
“Instead, our study shows that oncogenic KRAS plays a profound immunosuppressive role in cancer maintenance, and that treatment of cancer will be improved by simultaneously inhibiting KRAS and activating immune pathways suppressed by the cancer,” says Oleksi Petrenko, research assistant professor in the department of microbiology and immunology in the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.
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