100 Million Additional People Descended into Poverty Because of the Impact of Lockdowns

100 Million Additional People Descended into Poverty Because of the Impact of Lockdowns

• Many of those 100 million people starved.
• Children were forced to work instead of going to school.
• Girls were sold into sexual slavery because their families couldn't feed them.
• Children will end up poorer and live shorter lives because of interruption to schooling.

@DrJBhattacharya
: "These are the kinds of things that policymakers really need to be thinking about when they make these decisions. We didn't think about them. And we didn't think about them because the people that would have brought them up were being suppressed."