Mortality rates for children are rising.
A new analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association claims the numbers are rising at rates not seen in at least half a century.
The death rate for children and adolescents rose by nearly 20 percent between 2019 and 2021.
The study claims, “These increases, the largest in decades, followed a period of great progress in reducing pediatric mortality rates” and assigned blame to “manmade pathogens,” particularly guns and drugs.