Something finally beat guns.
Maybe not. Data wasn’t broken down by choice of weapon.
Among children and young people aged 0 – 19 years in the US, COVID-19 ranked eighth among all causes of death; fifth among all disease-related causes of death; and first in deaths caused by infectious or respiratory diseases.
Disease has always been a bigger cause of death in the US than guns.
- 2019 US gun deaths: 39,707
- 2019 US heart attack deaths: 659,041 (17 times higher than guns)
- 2022 US COVID-19 deaths: approx 244,000 (6 times higher than guns in 2019)
If I were to wager, I’d bet that accidents (majority of which are car related) would be the leading cause of death in children followed by cancer. I’d like to see what of the accidents were gun related/caused though. Also intentionaly caused deaths via gun violence broken down into suicides and homicides would be a insightful stat.
Oh, “a leading” not “the leading”
You mean like “falling into a single rusty nail is the leading caused of tetanus of the eye? But only a leading cause of loosing an eye?” Scientists, though, have proven that falling right on a rusty nail pointing perfectly upwards with its pointy side straight into the eye is 100% effective at inducing eye removal surgery.
This study is for 2021-2022 during the peak of COVID and is not indicative of the current situation. While we still have to be vigilant, accidents, murder and especially intentional self harm should be way more concerning
Accidental is #2? Like people dropping babies?
Edit, oh, this includes teenagers
Department of Computer Science?
I thought that would be under social studies or medicine or math (statistics) and not part of the computer science department
