Nearly 40,000 US children have lost a parent to COVID-19, study estimatesNearly 40,000 US children 17 or younger may have lost a parent due to COVID-19 infection, according to a statistical model in JAMA Pediatrics today.The results, published as a research letter, suggested that 1 in 13 COVID deaths result in a child losing a parent and that, as of February 2021, 37,300 children have been affected—more than 43,000 if using excess death data.A quarter of children who have lost a parent are of elementary school age, according to the model, and 20% of all children experiencing parental bereavement are Black, even though Black children make up only 14% of the country's population.