Display MoreThis seems to be a total outlier and the numbers should be checked.
Nearest I can figure it is an anti-vaccine leaning writer.
I don't think I am ready to think that not giving vaccines is real cause of reduced child deaths during the pandemic.
But here it is:
Lessons from the Lockdown—Why Are So Many Fewer Children Dying?https://childrenshealthdefense…any-fewer-children-dying/
"Starting in early March, expected deaths began a sharp decline, from an expected level of around 700 deaths per week to well under 500 by mid‐April and throughout May. [1]
ref----1. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System. [Online] [Cited: June 6, 2020.] https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html.
This is typical unthinking antivax conspiracy theory.
It is not surprising total child deaths are down:
(1) child deaths from COVID are << other causes
(2) child deaths from other causes (accidents etc) are affected by lockdown. Specifically car accidents, but many other things too. I've no idea what the breakdown is, it would be interesting to see.
In 1900, pneumonia and influenza, tuberculosis, and enteritis with diarrhea were the three leading causes of death in the United States, and children under 5 accounted for 40 percent of all deaths from these infections (CDC, 1999a). Today, only pneumonia (in combination with influenza) is among the top 10 causes of death overall or for children. Substantial declines in mortality have continued in recent decades. During the past 40 years, infant deaths due to pneumonia and influenza fell from 314 per 100,000 live births in 1960 to 8 per 100,000 in 1999 (Singh and Yu, 1995; NCHS, 2001b). As infectious disease mortality has declined in significance, unintentional and intentional injuries have emerged as leading causes of death, especially for children past infancy.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220806/
In the UK other cause mortality for young people went down locking them in.
It seems all you need is to confuse correlation for causation and you believe every conspiracy theory going.