Lockdowns Proved Deadly to Children, Study Shows – The Heartland Institute

“In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown,” state the authors of a new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research. For every adult life saved from COVID-19, the researchers calculated that 1.76 lives of children were lost due to the downturns caused by shutting down economies.