Nearly 52 million children around the world have been documented with childhood COVID and more than 7 million have lost a caregiver to the pandemic.
In our KCC panel on Global Health and Secondary Impacts, experts called for increased funding, coordination, and tracking of new and existing programs to deal with the simultaneous worldwide crises of orphanhood, educational gaps, violence against children, and other results of the pandemic that go beyond vaccines and death.
For some mind-boggling stats, check out our fact sheet.