Kao-Ping Chua (@kaopingchua.bsky.social)

New pub: using commercial claims, we show that mortality in the adult family members of children rose in winter 2020 and late 2021. Some of these family members were 19-25, suggesting kids lost older siblings during the pandemic. @norabeckermd.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Mortality in the families of children during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a repeated cross-sectional study of children in the United States - BMC Public Health Background Modeling studies suggest that hundreds of thousands of U.S. children have lost caregivers since the COVID-19 pandemic began. However, few studies have directly evaluated changes in mortalit... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-025-21528-7