STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Children have, by far, the lowest risk for serious COVID-19 infection; COVID policies have therefore had an outsized impact on children and teens
Suicide attempts among girls rose 51% in 2021
Between 2019 and 2020, adolescent overdose mortality rose from 2.35 per 100,000 to 4.58 per 100,000, a 94.3% increase
Fentanyl fatalities among teens nearly tripled between 2019 to 2020, and represented 76.6% of adolescent overdose deaths in 2021
Children’s health is also being decimated by COVID jab mandates.
A declaration signed by 16,000 doctors and scientists calls for the elimination of all COVID jab mandates for children
As noted by CBS reporter Jan Crawford during a Face the Nation roundtable discussion1 December 26, 2021, children have — by far — the lowest risk for serious COVID-19 infection and, in her view, COVID policies have therefore had an outsized impact on children and teens.
“Even teenagers, you know, a healthy teenager, has a one in a million chance of getting and dying from COVID, which is way lower than … dying in a car wreck on a road trip.
But they have suffered and sacrificed the most,” Crawford said.
“And now we have the Surgeon General saying there’s a mental health crisis among our kids.
The risk of suicide attempts among girls [is] now up 51% this year, [and] Black kids [are] nearly twice as likely as white kids to die by suicide.
School closures, lockdowns, cancellation of sports. You couldn’t even go on a playground in the D.C. area without cops … shooing the kids off.
[It has had a] tremendous negative impact on kids, and it’s been an afterthought.
You know, it’s hurt their dreams, their future learning … risk of abuse, their mental health
… [If] our policies don’t reflect a more measured and reasonable approach for our children, they will be paying for our generation’s decisions [for] the rest of their lives.
And that, to me, is the greatest underreported story of the past year.”
