American Children Are Dying at Highest Rate in 50 Years

[rangerrebew]

American Children Are Dying at Highest Rate in 50 Years
 
Naveen Athrappully
Mar 16 2023
 

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).”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/american-children-are-dying-at-highest-rate-in-50-years_5124568.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport

[Kamaji]

By "injuries" do they mean only other-inflicted injuries, or both other-inflicted and self-inflicted?  In other words, how much of this increase is due to suicides?

[Smokin Joe]

By "injuries" do they mean only other-inflicted injuries, or both other-inflicted and self-inflicted?  In other words, how much of this increase is due to suicides?

Both.

[mountaineer]

In medical lingo, wouldn't the term "injuries" include fatalities caused by drugs, whether Fentanyl or Covid vax? I'm not in the medical profession, but thought I'd seen it in that context.

[Smokin Joe]

In medical lingo, wouldn't the term "injuries" include fatalities caused by drugs, whether Fentanyl or Covid vax? I'm not in the medical profession, but thought I'd seen it in that context.

Suicides were mentioned in the article as being a major factor.

Covid Vax was not specifically mentioned, but from what I have read, otherwise healthy kids under 12 were more likely to have a fatal adverse reaction to the jabs than to die of COVID