immunizations, and supporting children and families with social needs, the empty clinic hallways and examination rooms are a stark reminder of who is missing from the daily news feed about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: children, particularly those who live in poverty. The...
Medscape: Babies in the poorest ward in DC were reported to be about 10 times as likely to die in the first year of life than were infants in the richest ward. The report places the blame for these differential infant mortality rates pretty squarely on poverty, without teasing out race as...
Chamberlain, MD, MPH JAMA Pediatrics Correction Change to Open Access Status JAMA Pediatrics Correction Coding Error and Errors in Estimates JAMA Pediatrics Key Points Question What are the recent trends in children’s health, including significant changes that might be attributed to the COVID-19 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten population health, disrupt healthcare delivery and diminish economic and social activities globally, with over 230 million cumulative cases, 4.7 million deaths, and 6.2 billion doses of administered vaccines1,2. In the United States (US), there have bee...
COVID-19 Pushing Us to Breaking Point, Says French Headteacher More Reuters Schoolchildren attend a lesson in their classroom at the private primary school Jeanne D'Arc in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, near Paris, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in France, March 30, ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions to the education system, including declines in PreK-12 enrollments, and has led to shifts in where and how families choose to educate their children, with some opting for religious or private schools, homeschooling, virtual schools, public ...
[03:46.84]between high- and low-poverty schools," he said. [03:52.04]Schools are hopeful disruptions will be less likely. [03:55.97]Many districts have invested in air flow systems. [03:59.92]Vaccines are available to child...
The researchers faced difficulties. The number of kids in WIC declined in the past ten years. And the study included 2020, the year the COVID-19 pandemic hit. At the time, fewer parents brought their children in to see doctors. That reduced the amount of complete information available. ...
Planning to keep children home was also associated with fear of COVID-19 (B = 0.19; P < .001), fear of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (B = 0.12; P = .04), confidence in schools (B = −0.22; P < .001), and challenges of homeschooling (B = ...
as including the death of one or both parents6. The definition includes children losing one parent, because they have increased risks of mental health problems, abuse, unstable housing, and household poverty. For children raised by single parents, the COVID-19-associated death of that parent may...