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In 2020, it was projected that approximately 150 million additional children would be living in multidimensional poverty – without access to education, health care, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water – due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis jointly carried out by Save the Children and UNICEF. [26]
More than 25 million people lost coverage during the “unwinding” of Medicaid— the majority for procedural reasons like paperwork issues, according to the health policy research group KFF.
Dehydration was a major cause of death during the 1829 cholera pandemic in Russia and Western Europe. In 1831, William Brooke O'Shaughnessy noted the changes in blood composition and loss of water and salt in the stool of people with cholera and prescribed intravenous fluid therapy (IV fluids).
On 27 April, the WHO warned about the pandemic's impact on health services, especially for children, particularly vaccination. [80] On 28 April, the WHO launched a major UN-led initiative to secure supplies of key medical equipment for 135 low to medium-income countries responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. [81]
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With our focus at the foundation on early childhood well-being, we were drawn early on to the research led by Brown University that showed significant delays in cognitive, speech/language and ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has also greatly affected the urban poor living in the slums with little or no access to clean water. [25] [26] The pandemic has shown the importance of sanitation, hygiene and adequate access to clean water to prevent diseases. According to the World Health Organization, handwashing is one of the most effective actions ...
In physiology, dehydration is a lack of total body water that disrupts metabolic processes. [3] It occurs when free water loss exceeds free water intake. This is usually due to excessive sweating, disease, or a lack of access to water. Mild dehydration can also be caused by immersion diuresis, which may increase risk of decompression sickness ...