Covid killed plenty of kids too
In the picture below, the excess deaths regardless of cause for 0-14 years old in Europe.
Could it have been the vaccine, though?
Probably not. First of all, there is a clear seasonal effect. Secondly, see the next point.
Cardiovascular deaths spiked in 2020, not 2021
They spiked in the year we had COVID but not the vaccine, and decreased once the vaccine arrived.
If the vaccine were the main driver of cardiovascular deaths, we would have expected those deaths to be relatively stable in 2020 and spike in 2021.
Suicides decreased during the lockdown years
So much for those saying that lockdowns would have increased them.
2020 deaths weren’t “pulled forward”
There was this theory that, yes, plenty of people died in 2020, but they were elders who would have died the following year anyway. In other words, they were deaths “pulled forward” from subsequent years.
If that were true, subsequent waves should have been less deadly.
Instead, excess deaths regardless of death stayed relatively stable across waves.