{"id":8806,"date":"2021-04-06T10:20:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2021-04-07T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:21:10","slug":"estimates-and-projections-of-covid-19-and-parental-death-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/06\/estimates-and-projections-of-covid-19-and-parental-death-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimates and Projections of COVID-19 and Parental Death in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An estimated 37,300 children aged 0-17 years in the US had lost at least 1 parent due to COVID-19 by February 2021, of which roughly 3 in 4 are adolescents aged 10-17 years. Estimates were computed by taking current COVID-19 mortality estimates (479,000) and applying a bereavement multiplier (number of children parentally bereaved per COVID-19 death = 0.078) and calculated from demographic simulations using kinship networks of white and Black individuals in the US. Relying on estimates of excess deaths rather than confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 raised the estimate to 43,000 children. Black children are disproportionately affected, comprising roughly 20% of parentally bereaved children while only comprising 14% of the US population of children.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kidman et al.\u00a0(Apr 5, 2021). Estimates and Projections of COVID-19 and Parental Death in the US. JAMA Pediatrics. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamapediatrics.2021.0161\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamapediatrics.2021.0161<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 37,300 children aged 0-17 years in the US had lost at least 1 parent due to COVID-19 by February 2021, of which roughly 3 in 4 are adolescents aged 10-17 years. Estimates were computed by taking current COVID-19 mortality estimates (479,000) and applying a bereavement multiplier (number of children parentally bereaved per COVID-19&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/06\/estimates-and-projections-of-covid-19-and-parental-death-in-the-us\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-8806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mortality","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8807,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions\/8807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}