The Main Covid Lockdown Casualties: Children

Suicide and homicide rates for young people hit a 20-year high.

WSJ editorial. Excerpts:

"youth homicides and suicides hit a 20-year high in 2021 following lockdowns and the turn to progressive policing.

Suicides among adolescents and young adults have been increasing more or less steadily for two decades. But the new data show that, after a small decline between 2018 and 2019, youth suicides climbed in 2020 and 2021. The two-year increase among the college-aged (20 to 24) was the largest in at least two decades."

"about half of 18-to-24-year-olds experienced anxiety or depression during the summer of 2020."

"Between 2019 and 2021, the homicide rate among those age 10 to 24 increased 37% and even more in those 15 to 19 (44%) and 10 to 14 (56%)."

"Early in the pandemic, governments released scores of criminals from jail putatively to reduce the spread of Covid."

"the number of people in custody of state, federal or privately operated prisons declined by 215,800 between February 2020 and February 2021."

"In 2020 suicide was the second, and homicide the fourth, leading cause of death among adolescents age 10 to 14. Covid wasn’t in the top 10. There were 13 times as many homicides as Covid deaths among those age 15 to 24."