Something must have happened in 2021. 

Yeez, does anybody have a clue what it might be?

 

This chart, from the National Vital Statistics Reports Volume 74, Number 7 June 10, 2025 Infant Mortality in the United States, tracks infant deaths per 1,000 live births across nearly three decades. Until 2021, mortality rates trended steadily downward, reflecting advances in maternal care, neonatal medicine, and socioeconomic improvements. However, the period commencing with and following 2021 shows a break in that 25-year consistency: instead of declining further, neonatal and postneonatal mortality abruptly change from a legacy trend, to an entirely novel one.

 

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Let me think, what could it possibly be.   Maybe there was something new and available being given to pregnant people at the end of 2020.

 

Wow  ... so many things might have caused it.  Like finding a needle in a haystack  

22 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

Something must have happened in 2021. 

Yeez, does anybody have a clue what it might be?

 

Hmm, let's see… We need to find something encompassing, the one stable statistic, the one action encompassing all segments of the population, the one exact thing that everyone did in 2021…

 

Nope, I'm afraid can't figure it out, this one goes in the Coincidence box.

Not hard to explain at all, considering there was a massive global pandemic that sickened expecting mothers, overwhelmed hospitals and other medical facilities, and interrupted normal pre-birth medical care practices, and generally kept a lot of ordinary people away from hospitals during the pre-vaccine periods of the pandemic when weekly COVID deaths were in the tens of thousands, among other impacts.

 

In short, adopting a riff from Bill Clinton aide James Carville -- "It's the COVID, stupid!"

 

Editorial: SARS-CoV-2: implications for maternal-fetal-infant and perinatal mortality, morbidity, pregnancy outcomes and well-being

2024 Feb 8

 

"the provisional infant mortality rate for the United States rose 3% from 2021 to 2022, the first year-to-year increase in two decades (23). The rise involved two leading causes of death: maternal complications and bacterial sepsis. While these data are preliminary and the underlying causes are likely to be multifactorial, COVID-19 may be a driver for the observed increase in infant mortality. The full impact of the pandemic on worldwide excess mortality has been estimated to exceed 300 deaths per 100,000.

 

Long-term outcomes are being studied in children with fetal exposure to COVID-19. There is growing evidence that in utero exposure is associated with adverse neurodevelopmental sequelae, particularly in males (25, 26). Serious concerns reported in this edition involve a Brazilian birth cohort in which fetal COVID-19 exposure was associated with cerebral deep white matter changes suggesting zonal impairment of myelin content at 6 months adjusted age (Alves de Araujo et al.). These findings build on an established literature associating maternal infection, with fever and exaggerated immune response, with neurodevelopmental impairment including autism." [emphasis added]

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Finally, given the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on underrepresented communities already predisposed to excess perinatal morbidity and mortality, health officials must re-focus resources to optimize perinatal care quality through attention to the social determinates that place these populations at unacceptably enhanced risk.

 

Frontiers in Pediatrics

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10882071/

 

 

And while we're in the general neighborhood, new research from just the other day:

 

In short, for pregnant women:

COVID Infections BAD

COVID Vaccines GOOD!

Study finds no link between mRNA COVID vaccines early in pregnancy and birth defects

October 16, 2025

 

"mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in the first trimester of pregnancy isn't tied to an elevated risk of 75 major congenital malformations (MCMs) affecting 13 organ systems, supporting the safety of the vaccines in early pregnancy, French researchers write today in JAMA Network Open.

 

The nationwide, population-based study was conducted using the comprehensive Mother-Child EPI-MERES Register, which included all live-born infants in France from pregnancies beginning in April 2021 to January 2022, with follow-up to December 2024.  Of 527,564 infants, 24.7% were exposed to an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine during the first trimester of pregnancy. Exposure was considered receipt of one or more doses of mRNA vaccine early in pregnancy.

 

"When women are infected during pregnancy, the risks of complications increase significantly, particularly for preterm birth and both maternal and infant morbidity and mortality," the researchers wrote. "To prevent these adverse outcomes, messenger RNA (mRNA)–based COVID-19 vaccines have widely been recommended during pregnancy, initially only in high-income countries and subsequently worldwide."  [emphasis added]

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"Our study confirms the fetal safety of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy, showing no increased risk of MCMs and reassuring the millions of women worldwide who received these vaccines early in pregnancy," the authors wrote. [emphasis added]

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-finds-no-link-between-mrna-covid-vaccines-early-pregnancy-and-birth-defects

 

 

 

 

Stop vaxxing preggers ladies. Simple.

 

Ladies!!! There is nothing to fear from something that is not even real. Don't let them fool you any longer.

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Study finds no link between mRNA COVID vaccines early in pregnancy and birth defects

 

Phew! #facts™

2 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

 

Phew! #facts™

 

I realize actual facts can be a foreign concept to some... But keep trying!

 

Here, let me help:

Fact Check: US infant mortality rise not linked to vaccines

Reuters Fact Check

Updated November 13, 2023

 

"A report showing a 3% rise in U.S. infant mortality in 2022 compared with 2021 did not even examine vaccination of mothers or infants as a factor, contrary to posts online suggesting that vaccination played a role in the increase, which came after a 20-year decline.

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Vaccination status - of mothers or infants - was not one of the factors examined in the report. In a statement responding to the CDC report, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) President Dr. Sandy L. Chung said there are many reasons for the 2021-2022 infant mortality increase, including challenges in access to nutritious food and affordable healthcare, as well as racial and ethnic disparities in accessible healthcare including prenatal care.

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The CDC, World Health Organization (WHO), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and evidence-based research support vaccinations for preventable diseases and reducing infant mortality. Reuters has previously addressed similar false claims that vaccinations were linked to sudden infant death syndrome rates in the U.S.

VERDICT

Missing context. There is no evidence that the 3% rise in U.S. infant mortality rate between 2021 and 2022 documented in a CDC report has any relation to vaccinations; the cited report did not include vaccination as a factor.

 

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/us-infant-mortality-rise-not-linked-vaccines-2023-11-13/

 

Just now, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

VERDICT

Missing context. There is no evidence that the 3% rise in U.S. infant mortality rate between 2021 and 2022 documented in a CDC report has any relation to vaccinations; the cited report did not include vaccination as a factor.

 

#facts™