In Our View: COVID has hit children of Washington, U.S. hard
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an immeasurable impact on American children. An upcoming peer-reviewed study from the American Academy of Pediatrics calculates that more than 140,000 children in the United States have lost a parent or grandparent to coronavirus. In Washington, the estimate is that more than 1,400 children have suffered such a loss. “COVID is real, and its impact on families is real,” Dr. Michael Barsotti, president of the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, told The (Spokane) Spokesman-Review. “As members of the family pass away because of COVID, be it your grandmother or mother, there’s an impact to the child.”
Source: Forbes November 03, 2021 23:09 UTC
