By Jennifer Chambers
"Everyone took it so hard," she told The Detroit News on Friday.
But days before leaving for Orlando on Aug. 13, Troy felt ill and decided to stay back in Detroit until he felt better.
Charletta went ahead with the children and her sister, but when she arrived in Florida, she too fell ill, Tiki Green said. Within two days, Charletta was bedridden and taken to a hospital in the Orlando area....
Researchers estimate 40,000 children in the U.S. (click here) have lost a parent to COVID-19, a tragedy disproportionately impacting Black children.
The team called for national efforts to support these children, especially as they face increased hardship and isolation during the pandemic.
“Children who lose a parent are at elevated risk of traumatic grief, depression, poor educational outcomes, and unintentional death or suicide, and these consequences can persist into adulthood,” authors wrote in a research letter published today in JAMA Pediatrics.
To calculate the parental losses, the team created a statistical model taking into account the number of deaths from COVID-19 since February 2020 and demographics of those who have died. They determined about one in every 13 deaths resulted in a child under 18 losing a parent.
As of February 2021, there were 479,000 recorded deaths. When deaths indirectly linked to the pandemic are included, that figure grows to 552,000. Using their statistical model, researchers determined roughly 37,000 to 43,000 youths have lost a parent. About three-quarters of those experiencing parental loss are adolescents....
Perhaps Americans need to realize over and over that the spread fo this virus was completely preventable. Now, through government neglect of it's citizens there are children without parents. It is not their fault and having a single-parent family may be a new challenge for a mother or father, not to mention some families lost their primary breadwinner.
OH, YES, this spread of SARS-CoV-2 was completely preventable. The article below was written soon after it was apparent the USA was in for a very rough ride with a virus out of CHINA AGAIN!
Every American that suffered from the virus and those who died are all human rights violations by Trump and his minions that seek to overthrow the USA democracy to save them from facing the facts.
March 22, 2020By Marisa Taylor
“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who served in that role, which was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2007 and 2011. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.”
Zhu and the other sources said the American expert, Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases....
COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE. IT ONLY TAKES ONE TRAINED PERSON TO DETECT A DISEASE OUTBREAK.
JUST ONE.
This is called national security. This form of national security does not roll into town with tanks, guns, and soldiers, it is deployed with KNOWLEDGE and USA directives to seek out and find dangerous and deadly diseases to prevent human tragedy in the homeland.
COVID-19 spread, AKA SARS-CoV-2 WAS COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE.
Today, Trump is running as hard as he can to declare his next hapless years in the presidency. Let me correct that, it wasn't at all hapless, but, it definitely is feckless.
He is spreading all the lies he can about the vote for 2020 to win sympathy and excuses for extremist groups to have hope this too will be the end of the democracy that encourages diversity and inclusiveness in all walks of life.
These people are human rights violators right here in the USA. Trump knows who the Americans are with a grudge for whatever reason they do and actively seeks them out to vote him into office in 2024. I don't think he is really interested in the office of the presidency, just free room and board while he plays General and Little Tin God.
SARS-CoV-2 started under Trump's watch because he decided he could do away with taxes for the US Treasury, so he cut everything HE THOUGHT was unnecessary government spending. That included American scientists that SAVED THE WORLD from previous outbreaks, some we don't even know about. There was no grand conspiracy by China to destroy the populations of the world. It happened for the reasons it always happens in China, overpopulation, poverty and some of it is profound poverty and lack of education about basics like sanitation.
Donald John Trump is a human rights violator and directly responsible for all the illnesses in the USA and the deaths. He is also responsible for orphans and new single-parent families. Do you know most single-parent families didn't start out that way? There were two parents under one roof that loved and cared about each other until divorce or death struck.
GET VACCINATED. YOUR CHILDREN NEED YOU.
