At least 2 million children from low-income households have lost their Medicaid coverage this year due to the expiration of pandemic-era policies and paperwork issues.

Extra federal funding introduced during Covid provided Medicaid coverage for millions of low-income adults and kids. But since it expired this past March, over 10 million Americans have dropped out.

At least 2 million of those disenrollments are children—a figure that Joan Alker, executive director and research professor at the Georgetown Center, believes will only continue to grow.