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Hunger study predicts 168,000 pandemic-linked child deaths

by Lori Hinnant
| December 14, 2020 8:36 AM

PARIS (AP) — Economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has set back decades of progress against the most severe forms of malnutrition and is likely to kill 168,000 children before any global recovery takes hold, according to a study released Monday by 30 international organizations.

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