Thread by @DrEricDing, What’s worse than losing school days during pandemic? Losing a parent. Nearly [...]

What’s worse than losing school days during pandemic? Losing a parent.

Nearly ~40,000 children have lost a parent to #COVID19, black children even more.
"The number of children experiencing a parent dying of Covid-19 is staggering.” https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/05/health/parental-deaths-covid-19-wellness/index.html

"Staggering" number of children have lost at least one parent to Covid-19, model estimates

More than a year into the pandemic, children's lives may be starting to look more normal as an increasing number of people get vaccinated and schools reopen. However, many children in the US are...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/05/health/parental-deaths-covid-19-wellness/index.html

2) "Black children are disproportionately affected, comprising only 14% of children in the US but 20% of those losing a parent to Covid-19."

3) “The model suggests that each Covid-19 death leaves 0.078 children aged between 0 and 17 parentally bereaved, representing a 17.5% to 20.2% increase in parental bereavement absent of Covid-19”

4) “"As of February 2021, 37,300 children aged 0 to 17 years had lost at least 1 parent due to Covid-19, three-quarters of whom were adolescents," says the research letter.

5) “When the authors factored in excess deaths, they estimated that 43,000 children have lost a parent and looking at a natural herd immunity strategy which resulted in 1.5 million deaths "demonstrates the potential effect of inaction: 116,900 parentally bereaved children."

6) US isn’t alone. In one school in France, 1 in 100 student lost a mother or father to COVID19. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1375784731875418116

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1375784731875418116

7) Here is what exactly the new US study says—“As of February 2021, 37 300 children aged 0 to 17 years had lost at least 1 parent due to COVID-19, three-quarters of whom were adolescents (Table).

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2778229?guestAccessKey=43aa3546-0434-4397-b992-5e4806ea7953&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=040521

8) “Of these, 20 600 were non-Hispanic White children and 7600 were non-Hispanic Black children. When we rely on excess deaths, we estimate that 43 000 children have lost a parent.

9) “A natural herd immunity strategy that results in 1.5 mil deaths demonstrates the potential effect of inaction: 116 900 parentally bereaved children.”

Translation: Trump advisor Scott Atlas would have caused not only pandemicide but also ~117k children to lose a parent.

10) Thus I wholeheartedly agree that “Parentally bereaved children will also need targeted support to help with grief, particularly during this period of heightened social isolation”

11) “The establishment of a national child bereavement cohort could identify children who have lost parents, monitor them for early identification of challenges, link them to local care, and form a longitudinal study of the long-term effects of mass parental bereavement”