Researchers estimate there are over 181,000 families in the U.S. in which at least one of a child's primary caregivers has died of COVID-19.
A senior official estimates that if Congress doesn’t approve funding for vaccines and treatments, there could be as many as 100 million Americans infected with COVID during a fall and winter surge.Aidan Garza often talks about his dad in the present tense, as if David Garza were still right across the living room, sitting in his favorite chair, calling the 12-year-old over to watch a"Star Wars" series.
Susan Hillis, the lead author of the first major modeling study to determine the numbers of children who lost a parent or caregiver to COVID, published last October in the journal for the American Academy of Pediatrics, said it is crucial that hospitals, schools and churches work together to identify families who lost a caregiver so that children can be protected from neglect and other threats.
Last summer, when the bushes in her yard needed to be trimmed, Justise found her dad's hedge trimmers and got to work.Justise McGowan, 13, rests her head on her mother, Dr. Sandra McGowan-Watts, at home in Matteson, Ill., March 16, 2022.Not long ago as he walked home from his school bus stop, a blue jay appeared in Aidan Garza's path. It was so beautiful,"I didn't think it was real," he said."It was so calm, not feisty like the other ones.
At 14, he remembers more than his brother about what life was like before that day late in 2015 when Margaret and David Garza adopted the boys. Gently pressed by his mom to open up, Julius' voice tightens and he says what every father would hope a son would say of them:Callaghan O'hare/Reuters
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