Most COVID19 deaths occur among adults, so a lot of attention has been focused on mitigating risks for them. However, that doesn’t mean kids won’t be impacted for years to come. Undue burden has been placed on kids, with the most detrimental being orphanhood.
As sobering as this article is, it describes what is likely just a fraction of the impact on children and families. I was struck that the Pediatrics article did not even mention the reality of parents/caregivers becoming disabled because of Long COVID, let alone attempt to estimate its impact. A parent becoming disabled is a different type of trauma than the loss described in the article, but it deserves recognition as well, and it brings very distinct challenges, since "closure" can be more elusive.
Read the Pediatrics article. I've been so focused on providing good safety data to an organization that I failed to even consider the impact on our younger members. Our organization has Cadets from age 12 to 21 and adult members from 18 up. Most of my considerations have focused on creating safe environments where we can bring our people together to train and meet our objectives. I missed this potential issue within our group. Thanks for highlighting an issue that's going to have repercussions for a long time.
The little things we don't think about, even though we should, will continue to add impacts we have to deal with later from this pandemic.
One of the pushbacks I constantly see from my social circle is that COVID isn't deadly. Just last week one was quoting the death rate being so low that it is not an issue. This group also considers all the reported deaths inflated due to COVID being used excessively as the cause of death per government mandate even when there were many other contributing factors. In their mind, COVID is simply not deadly.
This, in turn, lets them write off studies like this because they believe deaths of caregivers are higher from other causes than from COVID and that any studies which use COVID deaths are therefore also inflated and flawed.
Are there any studies or reporting of COVID deaths that would not be compromised that show it in the context of other causes that are believable to this group who believes COVID is not a big deal at all?
As sobering as this article is, it describes what is likely just a fraction of the impact on children and families. I was struck that the Pediatrics article did not even mention the reality of parents/caregivers becoming disabled because of Long COVID, let alone attempt to estimate its impact. A parent becoming disabled is a different type of trauma than the loss described in the article, but it deserves recognition as well, and it brings very distinct challenges, since "closure" can be more elusive.
Read the Pediatrics article. I've been so focused on providing good safety data to an organization that I failed to even consider the impact on our younger members. Our organization has Cadets from age 12 to 21 and adult members from 18 up. Most of my considerations have focused on creating safe environments where we can bring our people together to train and meet our objectives. I missed this potential issue within our group. Thanks for highlighting an issue that's going to have repercussions for a long time.
The little things we don't think about, even though we should, will continue to add impacts we have to deal with later from this pandemic.
Thanks for sharing this disturbing news. Just to clarify, these deaths cited are those due to covid-19?What are the statistics for a “normal” yrar
One of the pushbacks I constantly see from my social circle is that COVID isn't deadly. Just last week one was quoting the death rate being so low that it is not an issue. This group also considers all the reported deaths inflated due to COVID being used excessively as the cause of death per government mandate even when there were many other contributing factors. In their mind, COVID is simply not deadly.
This, in turn, lets them write off studies like this because they believe deaths of caregivers are higher from other causes than from COVID and that any studies which use COVID deaths are therefore also inflated and flawed.
Are there any studies or reporting of COVID deaths that would not be compromised that show it in the context of other causes that are believable to this group who believes COVID is not a big deal at all?