Childhood mortality dropped during lockdowns when many children couldn’t get routine vaccinations

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Childhood mortality dropped during lockdowns when many children couldn’t get routine vaccinations

October 20th, 2023

Awake Goy

Childhood mortality dropped during lockdowns when many children couldn’t get routine vaccinations

During the pandemic, health authorities were worried about people avoiding getting routine healthcare, whether it was out of fear of being infected with the virus or due to lockdown restrictions. One area of particular concern was children missing routine vaccinations.
However, something very interesting happened during the lockdown when children couldn’t get their routine shots: childhood mortality actually went down.

Data from the first few months of the pandemic appears to confirm a link, with the death rate dropping in American children precisely when everything was shut down. In fact, deaths in children went down by a remarkable 30 percent, going from an average of 700 deaths per week to less than 500 in April and May of 2020.

Part of this may be attributed to a drop in SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Although there is no official cause of SIDS, childhood vaccines are suspected of playing a role. Indeed, Australian researcher Viera Scheibner noted, using the term “cot death” to refer to SIDS, “Vaccination is undoubtedly the single biggest and most preventable cause of cot-death…”

It’s also unlikely to be a coincidence that the U.S. has the highest infant mortality rate among all developed First World countries – and it gives children the highest number of vaccine doses in the world prior to their first birthday at 26; Canada falls just behind with 24. If vaccines prevent deaths, why are so many kids here dying?

Researchers have linked childhood vaccinations to a range of health problems.