Health systems and nutrition in the time of COVID-19.

As infection rates rise, job losses increase and workers leave cities to walk back home, and there is a silent hunger and nutrition crisis striking the country. Those who will bear the brunt of this are the already vulnerable-namely, children, adolescent girls, nursing and expectant mothers-now denied even basic calories. Among these are some who are also suffering huge weight losses because of the 15 days of high fever.