Posted on 03/16/2023 9:26:23 AM PDT by lightman
Mortality rates among American children and adolescents rose by almost 20 percent in just two years, with non-COVID injuries being a top reason for increased deaths.
Between 2019 and 2020, all-cause mortality rates for Americans in the age group of 1 to 19 years jumped by 10.7 percent, according to data collected and published by JAMA Network from the American Medical Association. This was followed by an 8.3 percent spike between 2020 and 2021. The total mortality rate in the two years between 2019 and 2021 was 19 percent—the biggest increase in at least 50 years. “These increases, the largest in decades, followed a period of great progress in reducing pediatric mortality rates,” the editorial stated.
“This reversal in the pediatric mortality trajectory was caused not by COVID-19, but by injuries,” the editorial stated. “In 2020, the COVID-19 mortality rate at ages 1 to 19 years was 0.24 deaths per 100 000, but the absolute increase in injury deaths alone was nearly 12 times higher (2.80 deaths per 100 000).”
Between 2019 and 2020, injury mortality rose by 22.6 percent among those between the ages of 10 and 19, with homicides rising by 39.1 percent and drug overdose deaths jumping by 113.5 percent. Among children aged 1 to 9 years, injuries accounted for 63.7 percent of the increase in all-cause mortality in 2021.
“We’ve now reached a tipping point where the number of injury-related deaths is so high that it is offsetting many of the gains we’ve made in treating other diseases,” said Elizabeth Wolf, an author of the editorial and an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at the Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine.
Non-COVID Death Causes
The editorial points out that the increase in injury deaths predates the pandemic. For instance, suicides among individuals between 10 and 19 years of age began to rise in 2007, with homicide rates starting to increase in 2013.
Between 2007 and 2019, mortality rates for suicide rose by 69.5 percent. Between 2013 and 2019, homicide rates increased by 32.7 percent. The editorial blamed the increase in suicide and homicide rates on a “deepening” mental health crisis and access to firearms.
Despite the fear created by the pandemic, the share of COVID-19 in deaths among children and young people (CYP) was lower when compared to other causes, according to a Jan. 30 study published in JAMA Network.
The study identified 821 deaths among CYP aged 0 to 19 years between August 1, 2021, and July 31, 2022, in the United States and compared it with other causes of death in 2019 prior to the pandemic. COVID-19 was ranked eighth among all causes of death within this demographic, accounting for 2 percent of all causes of death.
According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, unintentional injuries were the leading cause of death among children in 2020, accounting for 12.5 percent of deaths below the age of 12 and 31.4 percent of deaths among adolescents aged 12-17.
COVID-19 accounted for 0.3 percent of deaths in children under the age of 12 and 0.8 percent of deaths among those aged 12-17.
Mental Stress Among Children
Mental health among children and adolescents worsened during the pandemic per a paper published in The Lancet Psychiatry that analyzed emergency department visits. The analysis found a 22 percent jump in youth visits for suicide attempts when comparing the period prior to the pandemic to the pandemic period until July 2021.
This surge in suicide visits happened even though there was a 32 percent reduction in pediatric emergency department visits for health-related reasons during the pandemic. In addition, there was also an 8 percent increase in visits for suicidal ideation—referring to individuals who entertain suicidal thoughts.
A study on the National Poison Data System found that suspected suicide attempts through self-poisoning among children rose by 26.7 percent between 2015 and 2020.
“We need to be vigilant for the warning signs associated with suicide risk in our children,” said Dr. Christopher Holstege, chief of the division of medical toxicology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
“Our study is one of a number that demonstrates that we are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis in younger age groups. As a society, we must commit more resources to the mental health needs of our children.”
Tell all elderly about grocery delivery.
Please
Either the vaccines are to be blame, in which case Big Pharma needs to be punished, or COVID is directly responsible, in which case China, WHO, and Fauci all need to be punished. Instead, the country will by and large sit by passively.
Frankly, I am thankful my mother passed (at the age of 92) the fall before all this covid crap started.
She did not have the internet, cable or a cell phone. Much less a smart phone.
She got her news from ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and the newspaper.
Would have to really sift through these data, as it seems to be jumbling accidents with murder and druggie deaths - being that it includes all the way through age 19! “children” - hah!
In any case - if real injuries did indeed rise, then...
...better take the guns and break out the helmets!
Why confuse facts with the “chicken little” media/government narrative?
Sounds like another propagandized issue being peddled. I do know someone who works with college students. Told me depression and anxiety rates are very high in that group. Also social disconnection and withdrawal. Says recession of 2007-2008, smartphones back in early 2000s, lockdowns are prime contributors. I think there are more factors than that.
My dad died Thanksgiving that Fall (81 - sudden lymphoma)!
I am so grateful in hindsight. He had some 30 people visit him all at once including after he had gone unconscious. He would’ve been all alone with this absolute garbage.
The cruelty of the medical “heroes” since then knows no bounds. And it’s still happening (I have lots of issues and my mother has problems). They’re still acting like tyrannical cowards.
As it was, my MIL did die of COVID (on Jan 6, so we’ll never forget it) - all alone, in a small-town hospital in the boonies because they wouldn’t allow my husband in with her. Absurd and asinine.
I miss my folks and relatives who’ve passed recently. Same as you. This would kill them anyway. One was murder in my eyes.
I watch trans pieces and think the demons are in control.
Never was wealthy. Probably a good thing.
I suspect that “children” are being defined as 18 y.o. and under; and that this will become more of the “mounting evidence” for declaring gun violence a “public health emergency”.
Just how evil is it to convince parents to execute their own children by lethal injection?
The jab? Just a coinkidink? I think not!
I think there are are 100 different reasons for increased statistics in teens and young adults.
I don’t understand the children 9 yrs old and younger.
And that’s without the holocaust taking place in US abortuaries.
Quite the coincidence here. Vax status of the dead? We live at a time when a word such as “vaccine” or, say, “injury” can be redefined over night. And Why wouldn’t they breakdown the “injuries “? For me it’s 50/50 that if you look beneath the surface of such a “Why…gee…GOLLY! article such as this you’ll find a fresh steaming turd.
She got her news from ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and the newspaper.
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Unless you helped her get her thinking straight, the following Mark Twain truism would apply:
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
I noticed that. Those folks have not a single clue what
they are doing.
ha! COVID did it!
Window blinds cords?
I’ll talk about mental health.
I am a psychiatric provider trying to start up working privately under my own LLC. To do so, I have had to spend hundreds of dollars to get licensed, find a suitable space that MUST be ADA compliant, pay all the rents and fees up front, get credentialed by insurance companies, (another item that costs hundreds of dollars) and then once I start to make a profit, I have to cover the employment taxes, get taxed AGAIN as an individual, PLUS my high priced malpractice as well as business insurance. I have to pay for marketing, as well as all of my computer crap. I am not even sure I can do it as there are so many rules and regs — and just try working in a tri state area where everyone is coming from over the border in another state. It’s an insurance nightmare.
So, we’re out here trying to provide mental health care, but there is a lot getting in the way.
If I don’t work for myself, I’ll be employed by someone who makes me see 20 patients a day, allowing 15-20 minutes per patient which is not adequate for anyone involved.
But SOMEONE is getting rich off this scheme ....I’m here to tell you — it’s definitely not us, the actual providers of care.
I do not think it is rationally possible for what would be
termed natural childhood injuries to increase by this much
in two years.
The only anomoly tossed in, is (NOT COVID-19 RELATED!)
Let’s recall. When fatal injuries increase, the number of
non fatal injuries has to rise in support of that number.
If fatalities went up by 19.00%, the non fatal injuries
would certainly have to go up by a number close to that.
I’m curious if the serious injuries is a number very
close to normal.
If not, then what the peach fuzz is going on here?
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