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9 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Congrats to the U.N.'s World Food Program on winning the Nobel Peace Prize! Bravo to @WFP aid workers in remote or dangerous areas trying to make sure children get the nutrients they need -- especially this year, when the Covid epidemic is followed by an epidemic of malnutrition.
@WFP The World Food Program is also really smart about how to promote nutrition, from school lunches to food fortification to breastfeeding support. WFP has been in front of the growing recognition that when young children don't get adequate nutrients, they are set back for life.
The World Food Program is also an extraordinary logistics organization, getting food trucks into war zones, past warlords, into damaged ports, over rumors of roads. I've camped with WFP in South Sudan as they organized food drops from planes to save lives.
The World Food Program is the UN at its best. Every day, WFP workers wake up in tents or war zones and try to get food past gunmen and into the mouths of desperate children. Those who badmouth the UN should see the courage and dedication of WFP staff in Yemen or DR Congo or CAR.

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My new column on the second-round effects in the developing world of Covid-19, which are likely to be greater than the direct effects: A Cataclysm of Hunger, Disease and Illiteracy nytimes.com/2020/09/16/opi… Sadly, the rich world is myopic, self-absorbed and stingy.
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My Sunday column is now online, asking: "What if there had been no George Floyd video?" I look at structural racism throughout society: It doesn't go viral, but it is just as lethal and pernicious nyti.ms/2YmzWn9 I welcome your thoughts.
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If Native American tribes were counted as states, the five most infected states in the US would all be native tribes, with NY dropping to No. 6. Here's my new column from the front line in Navajo Nation, with photos by @AZehbrauskas nyti.ms/3eA4mZw
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After the coronavirus hit, South Korea and Ireland offered heartfelt assistance to Navajo Nation, in gratitude for help they had received in the past from Native Americans. The U.S. government, in contrast, has been more grudging in its help for Native communities.
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So what's the undercount on #covid19 in the US? I worked with @Harvard statistician @rafalab to calculate the excess deaths, and it seems that in the US more than 100,000 Americans have ALREADY died from the coronavirus. Here's our count: nyti.ms/3bBfvra
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