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.”
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“What types of injuries have increased 63% and killing 1 to 9 year olds?”
Perhaps children having a heart attack or stroke while skateboarding is counting as a skateboarding death. Kind of like how anybody with covid that died was counted as a covid death.
How long before that becomes a Demonicrat talking point?
LOL ,
that is a great parable
. where did it originate ? is it yours ?
It seems like the surge in technology has caused weak men to gain power while the strong men are busy working and trying to be in compliance with the idiotic new normal, that’s if they haven’t been killed off in the endless Globalist power control wars as soldiers fighting for my freedom (to pay high gas prices) . These new Superwhimp leaders have the potential to do a lot of damage to civilization, they are off to a great start with the internet that enables an advanced system of mind control, accesible by total whimps. Idiots like Elon Twit want to fill the sky with transponder satellites and other dorks want to fill the sky with chemicals to control global temps( with no one to stop them), then we have the emergence of the New Medical Industrial Complex and its idiotic “Biotech Industry” run by genius racketeers like Bill Gates ..... etc etc
I missedit.
There goes my chance to be first with the limp jokes.
“What types of injuries have increased 63% and killing 1 to 9 year olds?”
Perhaps children having a heart attack or stroke while skateboarding is counting as a skateboarding death. Kind of like how anybody with covid that died was counted as a covid death.
“that is a great parable
. where did it originate ? is it yours ?”
Sorry not mine. But i post it often enough hoping for a response like yours.
I honestly dont remember where i found it. It was either in a comment or an article itself that i saw on here not so long ago if i recall.
Or perhaps it was a kamala harris saying?
Had dinner with some friends tonight. Their daughter is an RN in a large hospital in Cape Girardeau. She said that young people are having and dying of heart attacks and strokes for some reason. We know what it is and so do they.
They care so much about the children that they want to murder them before they take their first breath of life.
I have always loved that Mark Twain quote.
Mom, was a conservative all her life.
She even voted for Goldwater instead of the other guy.
I was there a long time ago. Also had epilepsy (no more). Thus my love of neuroscience and psych. TOMORROW is an online conference. It is free to watch, but I want to be able to access afterwards to study. Only 100 bucks. well worth the cost imho.
HOPE IS FUEL (btw, lost 17 border patrol agents to suicide, and I usually watch the military data. We did lose 10 Special Forces to overdose... self medication? or other...)
“In the past three years, rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide have tripled. Loss of identity and purpose is rampant and a collective fear and sadness has become overwhelming. Morale has reached an all time low no matter where you find yourself in the world.
We need a solution. Answers we can trust.
On Saturday, March 18th, 2023, eight mental health experts are coming together to offer time-tested solutions for anxiety, depression, and despair beyond dangerous drugs, outdated theories, and New Age platitudes.”
I saw this couple of hours ago but it just hit me that with so many little ones having game tablets and NOT actually physically running around and playing for 90% of their time that they are losing some physical prowess and thus the “accidental” death rise. Or their parents or day care center employees are on the phone not watching them.
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