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# COVID doesn’t affect kids?
- URL: https://www.europeans.today/2022/03/07/covid-doesnt-affect-kids/
- Published: 2022-03-07T03:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-03-07T22:09:57.000Z
- Description: We have been relentlessly told that COVID-19 in children is of little consequence compared to adults, that COVID doesn’t affect kids... Or does it? 5.2 million children have been orphaned by the pandemic in the world. – Today’s political cartoon by Kim Wareham.
- Author: Kim Wareham
- Tags: Political Cartoons

###### First published: March 2022.

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### We have been relentlessly told that COVID-19 in children is of little consequence compared to adults, that COVID doesn’t affect kids... Or does it? 5.2 million children have been orphaned by the pandemic in the world. – Today’s political cartoon by [Kim Wareham](https://twitter.com/cocobelladoodle?ref=europeans.today).

  
*A study [published in The Lancet](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642%2822%2900005-0/fulltext?utm%5Fsource=STAT+Newsletters&utm%5Fcampaign=7b66611064-MR%5FCOPY%5F01&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fterm=0%5F8cab1d7961-7b66611064-151227717) shows that the number of children globally orphaned by COVID-19 is estimated to have reached a devastating 5.2 million up to October 2021.*

  
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COVID doesn’t affect kids? | [Kim Wareham](https://twitter.com/cocobelladoodle?ref=europeans.today)

  
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| **— AUTHOR —**▫ *[Kim Wareham](https://www.europeans.today/author/kim-wareham), Mum working with parent advocacy group @SafeEdForAll\_UK. Frustrated that Press & politicians don’t talk about the lack of scientific Covid mitigations in schools, she draws cartoons around the issues.* | GET THEM INVOLVED: Contact Your Politician |
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##### Sources

**Text:** This piece was originally published on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/cocobelladoodle/status/1500025804297621507?ref=europeans.today) and re-published in PMP Magazine on 7 March 2022, with the illustrator’s consent. | The artist draws in a personal capacity.