There are at least 238,500 children orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States whose lives have been turned upside down in the past three years by the loss of a parent or primary caregiver, according to Imperial College London's COVID-Orphan Count Unit. ).

Globally, there have been more than eight million COVID-orphans since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, CNN reported Sunday.