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The degree to which we inaccurately see health care and education as expenses instead of a vital human right, we will continue to see human needs sacrificed, and needless suffering and despair. (Pedro A. Noguera, personal communication, April 8, 2020)

The reality of a forthcoming pandemic was immediately grasped and communicated by Hilleman, even though other leaders were loath to accept that. Yet he persisted in persuading them rather than backing away from the data.

What are the facts that COVID-19 has laid bare for us about which children have access to health care and which do not; about who does and does not have Wi-Fi and tutors to advance their academics; and about the essential and heroic role schools play in mitigating the often forgotten, hidden, or ignored truth that more than half of all school-aged children in America are officially poor, and would go hungry without the nutrition that schools provide?