Lessons from the Lockdown

Why are so many fewer children dying?

A White Paper from Health Choice

By Amy Becker and Mark Blaxill

June 18, 2020

Virtually the entire change came

from infants. Somehow, the

changing pattern of American life

during the lockdowns has been

saving the lives of hundreds of

infants, over 200 per week.

As health officials bemoan the drop in well baby visits and vaccination rates because of the pandemic, they would do well to look at the corresponding decrease in the number of SIDS deaths.