Shadow Pandemics News Today

The world. and what i call the shadow pandemics. so the number of children that are out of school today is in the hundreds of millions. we know today around the world, nine out of ten children will not be to their most literate selves that they should be by tenth grade. that includes kids in our own country of the united states and it includes middle and low-income countries. so that is huge. girls, 10 million more girls are projected to fall into child marriage because of covid-19. women didnt ...

Because if theyre not the ones on the front lines, they cant rely on others for change. and i think thats incredible. i think it also gives us perspective, if girls like that can risk everything to just be free to show their hair and have just basic freedoms, then we can all do more, you know, from where were sitting. so i find that really inspiring. >> melinda, can i ask you about the impact that covid-19 has had on girls in general just across the world. has it been a huge setback? >> you know...