The increase in excess deaths follows an uncharacteristic decrease from the start of the pandemic. I'm not sure how much of it is a real increase rather than the inevitable being postponed by enforcing very strict disease-preventing measures (social distancing, washing hands, shutting down busy places, etc.).
The weekly numbers for the excess in mortality very much suggests that the death rates for 0-14 year olds were significantly lower in the last quarter of 2020, and significantly higher starting in the middle of 2021, when COVID measures were (starting to be) lifted in large parts of Europe.
I hope the cause behind the rise in death toll amongst children isn't the same as that during the Spanish Flu, mainly that the virus mutated to be mild for adults but deadly for children.
Yeah that's not really a topic you want to look into unless you've a stiff drink to hand imo, a painful amount of I told you so style learning to made picking that apart...
I don’t find that strange at all: vaccination/deaths of the elderly meant the virus needed t9 find a new susceptible population. Spanish Flu did the same: started out hurting adults, ended up killing kids.
What I find strange is the increase in excess death among children since April 2021.