More than 200,000 American children have lost a parent or caregiver to Covid. Help efforts have been haphazard.

Children who have lost caregivers to Covid may be flying under the radar, experts say “If a child has lost a parent, someone needs to show up at that doorstep right away — and I mean right away,” one professor of pediatrics said. NBC News

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Two years into the pandemic, the number of children who have lost a parent or other in-home caregiver to Covid across the United States is estimated to exceed 200,000, and families and child advocates say identifying and assisting these kids should be a priority. ...