ABC News: Over 5 million children around the world lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19

ABC News: Over 5 million children around the world lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19. “Approximately 5.2 million children have lost a parent or caregiver during the pandemic, according to a new study published in The Lancet medical journal Thursday. An analysis by the same team of researchers in July 2021 had estimated 1.5 million children were orphaned during the first 14-months of the pandemic, meaning they lost at least one parent. But with new variants and a rising death count, the researchers said they felt compelled to re-evaluate the analysis.”