Over 15,000 children across the tri-state have lost a primary caregiver to COVID-19, and now these young adults are facing a new challenge -- learning how to cope without a parent or guardian while building a foundation rooted in resiliency.
This month marks three years since COVID-19 first hit the tri-state. Over 250,000 children have lost a parent or caregiver since the start of the pandemic. NBC New York's Linda Gaudino follows three New York and New Jersey widows and children during their grief journeys, learning to cope with their own "new normal" while gaining a newfound resiliency.
"So many people are talking about 'well COVID's over, let's move past COVID.' What I'm most concerned about is that these children have a lifetime of grief and healing ahead of them," Kocher told NBC New York. As communities become more comfortable in the"new normal" and the masks come off, families who have lost a loved one to the coronavirus say that the pandemic will always be with them.
Janice Koehne, 50, is a widow who lives in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, with her two children, Kylie and Colton. Her late husband, Eric, was a proud Marine Corps veteran who later worked for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson. Koehne died from COVID at the age of 51 on April 5, 2021. A constant worry of Addison's is whether she can afford to keep a roof over her family's head. For Fletcher, who suffered injuries from a truck accident that left her permanently disabled and out of work, her husband's death meant losing everything from"my spouse, my best friend, the love of my life and my caregiver."
"In general, they have been forgotten. We don't think about the little ones who have experienced such a tremendous loss. You don't hear about them enough, you don't hear their stories enough -- it's ignored," Addison said.For many families, there is a realization that mourning comes in different forms. In essence, there is no"right way" to grieve, especially in a"grief-avoiding society," said Addison.
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