by John-Michael Dumais, Childrens Health Defense:

Death rates among children ages 1-4 jumped 12% between 2021 and 2022, and for kids 5-14 the rate increased by 7% over the same period, according to data released this month by the CDC.

Death rates among children ages 1-4 jumped 12% between 2021 and 2022, and for kids 5-14 the rate increased by 7% over the same period, according to data released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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The rise in mortality for these young age groups reverses decades of progress in reducing childhood deaths, according to CNN.

The new data brief from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics also included information, first released in December 2023, about infant mortality rates, which rose 3.1% from 2021 to 2022 — the first increase in two decades.

Life expectancy for adults in the U.S. rebounded slightly in 2022, with the overall life expectancy rising to 77.5 years, according to the CDC.

However, the rise “offsets less than half of the 2.4 years of life lost in the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, and life expectancy is still lower than it’s been in about 20 years,” CNN reported.

Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health, told CNN:

“Put simply, the fact that life expectancy in 2022 was lower than in 2019 means that Americans continue to die at higher rates than they did before the pandemic, despite the rebound.”

‘Every pediatrician, public health agency, and parent should be alarmed’

The increases in child mortality rates stand in stark contrast to the declines in mortality rates identified in all other age groups 15 and older. For example, the death rate for ages 15-24 decreased by 10.6%, and for ages 25-34, by 9.6%.

According to experts interviewed by CNN and The Defender, the increase in child mortality rates is especially concerning.

“This is a red flashing light about the poor health status of Americans and how it now puts our children at risk,” Woolf told CNN.

“This trend does not explain decreases in life expectancy for the total population, which is driven by deaths in adults,” Woolf said, “but it is alarming nonetheless because it means that our children, our most cherished population, are less likely to survive to adulthood.”

Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer at Children’s Health Defense, said he found it “stunning” that the younger age groups showed mortality rate increases while all other age groups experienced declines.

Dr. Michelle Perro, a pediatrician and author of “What’s Making Our Children Sick?,”  called the statistics “a disaster” adding, “Every pediatrician, public health agency, and parent should be alarmed.”

For the December 2023 data on infant mortality rates, the CDC listed maternal complications, bacterial sepsis and respiratory distress of newborns, diseases of the circulatory system and sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, as possible causes.

However, in its data brief the agency did not offer possible explanations for the jump in mortality rates for the 1-4 and 5-14 age groups.

In a March 2023 editorial on youth mortality, Woolf pointed to homicides, suicides, drug overdoses and car accidents as the principal causes.

Perro acknowledged that poor diets, lack of exercise and over-exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) contribute to chronic disease increases in pediatric populations.

However, both she and Hooker said they couldn’t rule out the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines for the younger age groups as possible contributing factors.

Perro told The Defender, “What has changed without a doubt is the introduction of the COVID vaccine — directly and indirectly through pregnant moms — for children 6 months and older.”

Perro said we are witnessing “the greatest pediacidal event of our lifetime,” adding that it is being covered up by the recent attempts “to normalize previously rare or unheard-of diseases such as heart attacks and strokes in childhood.”

According to Hooker, “It would be very difficult to rule out the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine in this increase given that the vaccine wasn’t approved for ages down to 5 years until Oct. 29, 2021, and down to 6 months until June 17, 2022,” Hooker said, noting that childhood mortality from the virus had been “very low.”

Hooker added, “It is unfortunate that the woefully under-tested COVID-19 vaccine was given to pregnant women (without any testing) starting in 2021, and despite the narrative of the government-pharma cartel, we have to look at this as a potential causal factor.”

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