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Study says 10.5 million children may have lost parents or caregivers to COVID, including 7.5 million orphaned

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Worldwide, about 10.5 million children may have lost parents or caregivers to COVID-19 and 7.5 million were orphaned, according to new study that estimated excess mortality using World Health Organization (WHO) data.

 

In the study, published [Sept. 6] in JAMA Pediatrics, a University of Oxford researcher led a team in analyzing excess COVID-19–related deaths from Jan 1, 2020, to May 1, 2022.

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An estimated 10.5 million children lost parents or caregivers to COVID-19, and 7.5 million were orphaned, with the greatest numbers in the Africa (24.3%) and Southeast Asia (40.6%) WHO regions and the least in the Americas (14.0%), Eastern Mediterranean (14.6%), European (4.7%), and Western Pacific (1.8%) regions.

 

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/09/covid-19-may-have-orphaned-75-million-kids-worldwide

 

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Also:

 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2795650

 

https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_calculator/#/country/Global

 

A special kind of 'long covid'.  Very sad for so many families.   

 

I personally know of three children left without parents taken by COVID and there have certainly been reports in the press of children being orphaned throughout the pandemic.

 

Awfully sad, and so often unnecessary.

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