Posted on 07/17/2021 6:16:17 AM PDT by george76
Five times more children and young people committed suicide than died of COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic in the United Kingdom, according to a study, which also concluded that lockdowns are more detrimental to children’s health than the virus itself.
Researchers with the University College London, the University of York, the University of Liverpool, and the University of Bristol found in a study (pdf) that has not yet been peer-reviewed that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, otherwise known as the coronavirus, doesn’t appear to present a significant risk to children as compared with other age groups.
The study concluded: “The risk of removal of CYP (children and young people) from their normal activities across education and social events may prove a greater risk than that of SARS-CoV-2 itself.” SARS-CoV-2 is another name for the CCP virus.
It was revealed in the study that only 25 children under the age of 18 died of COVID-19 from the start of the pandemic until the end of February 2021. Around 61 children in all died after testing positive, but in 36 cases it was found the virus “did not contribute to their death.”
But during the same time period, there were 124 suicides among children and 268 deaths from trauma, the study authors found, while noting the virus is “rarely fatal” for children.
“These new studies show that the risks of severe illness or death from SARS-CoV-2 are extremely low in children and young people,” said University College London Professor Russell Viner, a senior author of the study, in a release this week. “Our new findings are important as they will inform shielding guidance for young people as well as decisions about the vaccination of teenagers and children, not just in the UK but internationally.”
Professor Lorna Fraser of the University of York added that “even when we found higher risks for some groups with severe medical problems, these risks were still very small compared to risks seen in adults,” explaining that people should know that COVID-19 risks for children “are very low.”
Meanwhile, Dr. Elizabeth Whittaker of Imperial College London said that the researchers hope the “data will be reassuring for children and young people and their families.”
In November, one UK researcher issued a warning that COVID-19 lockdowns are causing a spike in children harming themselves and drug overdoses among children.
“Children are a lost tribe in the pandemic. While they remain (for the most part) perplexingly immune to the health consequences of COVID-19, their lives and daily routines have been turned upside down,” Dr. John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary wrote at the time.
The people in government should have know that. They are responsible for the deaths.
and you can bet there will be more lockdowns this fall.
It really is starting to look like a depopulation event. If they keep this up for another year or two with scariant after scariant, we will have lost 20-25% of the planet with actual covid being the smallest killer.
The war on children by the ruling oligarchies is by far the most heinous...
Trump brought this up early on...but everyone was more concerned about themselves and controlling the sheeple.
Lock downs and mask mandates already re-started...
Woman dictating LA County Shutdowns is not a Medical Doctor nor a scientist but a welfare grifter. .
Los Angeles County has a glorified community organizer posing as a public health director shutting everything down indefinitely. “Doctor” Barbara Ferrer (doctorate in social welfare, not medical ).
Scared them to death
Oh look!
Another thing the media is covering up.
The Media should be charged with Murder
Wait a minute. Numbers must be pure.
What number of children committed suicide in 2019, before the virus arrived?
I was curious whether the Chinese virus/lockdown had affected the suicide rate in this age group; researching some stats it seems that the number 124 is fairly normal [alas] in the 10-20 age group.
Just part of the plan.
https://www.hqip.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/8iQSvI.pdf
This is a UK study of young suicides published 2017/8 for data a year or two before that. The suicide numbers look similar to what is quoted above.
One interesting thing is a common suicide cause in children is bereavement. A family member dies and the child can’t endure it.
Covid may cause child suicides in that manner. A grandparent, perhaps.
the latest stat I could find was 316 suicides in two years 2017-18 in the 10-20 year age group.
they’ll just tell you you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet
I was predicting this a year ago. What we’ve done to young people in the past year is criminal.
It would be interesting to know the increase from year to year. But, even seeing that the number is 5x less than the background level of suicides puts the risk in more understandable terms: ie, VERY low.
In the US, overdose deaths increased by 30%. I suspect suicides increased at least a little.
Science speaks, and will almost certainly be silenced!
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