STAT September 13, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has, of course, been devastating over the past year. But by other measures of public health, the year wasn’t quite as calamitous as Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates feared when they wrote their annual report in 2020.
That doesn’t mean the first year of the Covid pandemic hasn’t been hard.
The foundation’s 2021 Goalkeepers report, published late Monday, shows an additional 10 million children around the globe didn’t get key childhood vaccines this past year, because of public health service disruptions. Another 31 million people were pushed into extreme poverty by the pandemic. And employment among women is expected to remain 13 million jobs lower around the world this year than it was in 2019.
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