book chapter
COVID-19 will mostly spare young children; the economic crisis will not
COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later | 2022 | Pages: 4
Publisher(s): international food policy research institute (ifpri)
Open Access | CC BY-4.0
Citation
Ruel, Marie T.; and Headey, Derek D. 2022. COVID-19 will mostly spare young children; the economic crisis will not. In COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later, eds. John McDermott and Johan Swinnen. Part Three: Nutrition, Health and Social Programs, Chapter 19, Pp. 122-124. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294226_19
In a pair of commentaries published in The Lancet in August 2020, we and our colleagues in the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium (STfN) and the leaders of four UN agencies called for immediate action to address the escalating problems of child malnutrition and excess mortality triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic (Fore et al. 2020; Headey et al. 2020). Although child mortality from the virus itself is low compared to other age groups, the social, economic, and health systems crises it has prompted pose a serious threat to young children’s nutrition, health, and survival in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).