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

• 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
• Journal Title: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
• Volume: Volume 50
• Publisher: Elsevier | 2022-11-01, Pages 102446-102446
• Type of Work: Article | Final Publisher PDF
• Publisher DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102446
• Subjects: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery; Health Sciences, Public Health
• Keywords: Children orphaned due to COVID-19; Orphans; SARS-CoV 2; Child; Humans; Middle Aged; Aged; Child, Orphaned; COVID-19; Pandemics; SARS-CoV-2

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.