Doctors, advocates link rising domestic violence deaths of young children and serious injuries to COVID-19 isolation and financial stress

[Emily]

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-hosp...ers-could-linked-coronavirus-outbreak-1493810

By Chantal Da Silva On 3/23/20 at 2:16 PM EDT
Doctors at a children's hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, say the deaths of two preschool-aged children from different families in a single day could be linked to the coronavirus outbreak.

Speaking with Newsweek on Monday, Dr. Jamye Coffman, the medical director of the Child Advocacy Resources and Evaluation (CARE) team at the Cook Children's Hospital, said that doctors had already sounded the alarm after they noticed a rise in the number of children being admitted into the facility due to suspected child abuse.

At a facility where doctors are typically asked to review as many as six to eight cases of potential child abuse in the span of a month, Coffman said Cook Children's Hospital saw seven children admitted with suspected child-abuse related injuries in less than a week.

Coffman said the cases doctors are asked to review on a monthly basis are not always directly related to child abuse and do not always warrant admission into the hospital. "The ones that we saw this last week," she said, however, "were all what we thought were abuse," with six of those cases warranting hospital admission.

The seventh child, a preschooler, Coffman said, died in the hospital's emergency room before they could be admitted...

https://www.ksby.com/news/coronavir...d-pose-threat-to-victims-of-domestic-violence

COVID-19 safety orders could pose threat to victims of domestic violence
Posted: 5:43 PM, Mar 23, 2020
Updated: 2020-03-23 22:23:46-04

By: Alex Gonzalez
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"The weather plays a huge role in domestic violence situations. The financial situation of people plays a big role. Panic and fear create anxiety which feeds into domestic violence as well. We've been pretty steady on our calls," Campbell said.
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According to Rambo, a rise in domestic violence has also been seen across the globe as a result of the pandemic and it's something they are preparing for on the Central Coast.

"It is something we definitely expect to see because it has happened in every other place so far that the pandemic has hit," Rambo said.
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I'll never forget an interview with a former state of Michigan social worker I heard back in the 1990's when job losses were rampant there due to outsourcing. She said she realized that unemployment was driving the addiction and domestic abuse she was dealing with. She quit her job as a social worker and started a doll manufacturing company employing MI residents. I've wondered if that company survived the 2008 collapse and wonder what opportunities could be forever lost now.