Kids Who Lost Parents to COVID, In Their Own Words
More than 8,700 children in New York City are grieving a parent or caregiver who died of COVID. Here are some of their favorite memories, and what they wish others knew.
Muriel Alarcón
Muriel Alarcón is a Chilean journalist working as a freelance reporter from Santiago, Chile, and is a Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Journalism School. She is a regular contributor for El Mercurio and La Segunda, two of Chilean’s major newspapers. She holds a master of arts degree, focused on science and health, from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In recent years, she was a fellow for the Global Migration Project at Columbia Journalism Investigations and reported on Latino communities in New York City as a grantee of Fundación Gabo. Currently, she is a Pulitzer Center 2023 Climate Science Reporting Fellow and Joan Konner Program in the Journalism of Ideas Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Twitter: @murialalu
Long Hours, Low Pay, Loneliness, and a Booming Industry
The ranks of home health aides are expected to grow more than any other job in the next decade. What kind of work are they being asked to do?
