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Covid left thousands of US children orphans. Few states are addressing the crisis
An estimated 245,000 children in the US have lost one or both parents to Covid, but despite profound implications they have been largely overlooked in policy responses
Pharish Jeannis was “a man among men”, in the words of his wife, Elashia Hall-Jeannis. He served in the army and survived being shot in Kuwait, receiving a Purple Heart medal. He never got sick. He always made their children, Journee and Anthony, laugh.
Then, in the summer of 2021, he got a cough that wouldn’t quit. After about a month of borrowing the nebulizer his wife used for her asthma, one Wednesday night in late July, when they were out on a date, Elashia suggested, “Maybe you have Covid.”
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