Nicholas Kristof: This pandemic is bringing another one with it

Another pandemic is looming on the heels of the coronavirus: a pandemic of starvation, illiteracy and poverty.“We are not only facing a global health pandemic but also a global humanitarian catastrophe,” David Beasley, a former South Carolina governor who is executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, warned the Security Council this week. “We could be looking at famine in about three dozen countries.”The world, he said, faces its most serious humanitaria