One million orphans, so far

20 July 2021

Fellow Lucie Cluver is one of a team of authors on a paper that models the number of children orphaned or who lost their caregivers to COVID-19. This research was also featured on the University’s news pages (‘One million orphans, so far: the hidden COVID crisis we need to talk about much more’, 21 July 2021)

(Susan Hills et al., and Lucie Cluver, ‘Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphan hood and deaths of caregivers: a modelling study’. Published in The Lancet, doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01253-8)