Episode 5 Part 1 – The Effect of the Pandemic on Children

COVID19 The Answers

12-03-2022 • 40 mins

Discussing The Effect of the Pandemic on Children with the President and CEO of UNICEF Canada - Mr David Morley. This week on the show, we talk about the scale of global child suffering caused by COVID-19. UNICEF has declared COVID-19 to be the worst crisis for children in the organization's 75-year history and has called for immediate action. Today's interview will focus on some of the major crises that UNICEF has identified as directly affecting children around the world, namely Poverty, Education, Mortality, Immunization, Nutrition, and Abuse. We also discuss the impact of the Omicron variant on children and Long Covid in children.

Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/noE5eGjERgA

Learn more at: https://kojalamedical.com/covid19theanswers/

https://www.unicef.ca/

https://www.unicef.org/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(22)00005-0/fulltext

https://www.unicef.org/reports/unicef-75-preventing-a-lost-decade

https://tnc.news/2021/11/25/60-of-canadian-parents-worried-they-wont-be-able-to-feed-their-families/

https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html#a5