The hidden pandemic of orphanhood: 120,000 children in the U.S. and 1.5 worldwide have lost a caregiver to COVID-19 Children of color were disproportionately affected.
A new study on the number of children who have lost a caregiver to COVID-19 is the latest reminder that the pandemic’s impact will be felt for generations to come.
— Study in the journal Pediatrics One out of every 168 American Indian/Alaska Native children experienced orphanhood or death of caregivers, 1 of every 310 Black children, 1 of every 412 Hispanic children, 1 of every 612 Asian children, and 1 of every 753 white children, the researchers concluded. “We often think of the impact of COVID-19 in terms of the number of lives claimed by the disease, but as this study shows, it is critical to also address the broader impact — both in terms of those who have died, and those who have been left behind,” added study co-author Charles A. Nelson III, who studies the effects of adversity on brain and behavioral development at Boston Children’s Hospital.
The authors of the study, in the peer-reviewed The Lancet, arrived at that figure using mortality and fertility data to model rates of COVID-19 associated with the loss of a parent or secondary caregiver who lived with a child.
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