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Diaper need emerges as health indicator during pandemic

  • Written by Emily Belarmino, Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition, University of Vermont
imageThirty-six percent of surveyed families with young children said they did not have enough diapers during the pandemic.Tony Arruzza/Corbis Documentary via Getty Images

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