The Staggering Number of Kids Who Have Lost a Parent to COVID-19
Even if children are less vulnerable to the coronavirus, they don’t suffer any less from the loss it causes.
Throughout the pandemic, media outlets and online dashboards have provided constant updates on the number of people who have died from COVID-19. Far less prominent—but just as striking—are the tallies of those left behind.
According to published recently in the journal , at least 140,000 American children had lost a parent or caregiver because of the coronavirus by the end of June—meaning that one of roughly every 500 children lost one of the most important adults in their life. Susan Hillis, a co-author of the study and an epidemiologist at the
