The Boston Globe
Larisa Kuehn, a nurse with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, analyzed data on about 50,000 babies in the national Nurse-Family Partnership, which pairs low-income first time mothers with nurses for regular home visits. She compared babies born after the pandemic began to those born less than a year, one year, or more than two years before the pandemic, using standard developmental and social-emotional assessments, adjusted for demographics and health risks. Babies born during or just before the pandemic were more likely to show social-emotional delays and, by 18 months, more communication problems. “Kindergarten teachers and kids will need extra support,” Kuehn said. “It would be really important that we give additional funding to education systems to deal with a new generation of kids.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/metro/covid-pandemic-babies-kindergarten
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