Children orphaned by COVID-19: A grim picture and the need of urgent actions

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Dinh-Toi Chu, Vietnam National University Hanoi; Hue Vu Thi, Vietnam National University Hanoi; Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare; Ziad Memish, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2022-11-01
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102446
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
• Volume: 50
• Start Page: 102446
• End Page: 102446
• Grant/Funding Information: None.
• Keywords: COVID-19; Children orphaned due to COVID-19; Humans; Child; Child, Orphaned; SARS-CoV-2; Middle Aged; SARS-CoV 2; Aged; Pandemics; Orphans
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery; Health Sciences, Public Health

Abstract

The COVID-19 had caused as a global pandemic and resulted in enormous burdens. In addition, faced with the proliferation of SARS-CoV 2 variant strains, this pandemic is continuing unremitting. The world seemed to focus primarily on middle-aged and elderly deaths, however the interest of the impact of COVID-19 on children is limited. Scientists have estimated that orphanhood and caregiver death related to COVID-19 had increased twice in the last six months compared with the first 14 months of the pandemic. Orphans face directly the health consequences.