“…Empirical evidence about young children living in households with preparedness for COVID-19 in LMICs is worrying. In our investigation of 56 LMICs with available nationally representative data,6 on average <20% of young children lived in households that meet five preparedness conditions for preventing COVID-19 or communicable diseases (box 1). Children in low-income countries or sub-Saharan Africa were the most disadvantaged—only 4.4% or 4.6%, respectively, lived in prepared households.…”