Due to jammed logistics and falling consumer buying power, Covid-19 will cause more people around the world to die each day from hunger than from virus infections

Due to jammed logistics and falling consumer buying power, Covid-19 will cause more people around the world to die each day from hunger than from virus infections, forecasts a Bloomberg story: “Covid Threatens Bigger Death Toll From Starvation Than Infection.” With supply chains broken, food spoils in fields, ships and supermarkets, raising prices and forcing an extra 132 million people to go hungry, Bloomberg reports. “This year’s hunger gain may be more than triple any increase this century,” reports the article, the work of nine reporters around the world. “What makes the situation unmatched is that it’s happening at a time of enormous global food surpluses.”