[Comment] Leveraging the COVID-19 response to end preventable child deaths from pneumonia

alkiviadis.1961 shared this article with you from Inoreader [Comment] Leveraging the COVID-19 response to end preventable child deaths from pneumonia Via The Lancet Pneumonia kills people, young and old. The world has been reminded of the toll of pneumonia as countries struggle to control the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has claimed more than 1 million lives so far in 2020,1 but other infectious diseases have caused pneumonia-related mortality for decades. Although there has been a commendable 54% decline in pneumonia-related deaths among children younger than 5 years since 2000, pneumonia is still the leading infectious cause of child deaths and claims more than 800 000 children's lives every year (WHO Maternal and Child Epidemiology Estimation, unpublished). View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.