Guns Became Leading Cause of Death for Children and Teens in 2020 (US News)

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    Guns Became Leading Cause of Death for Children and Teens in 2020 – By Kaia Hubbard (US News) / April 22, 2022

    An analysis of CDC data found that gun-related injuries rose to the leading cause of death in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

    Gun-related injuries became the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in 2020, a new analysis found.

    The paper, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, analyzed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, finding that firearm-related mortalities surpassed vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death among the age group.

    Firearm-related deaths among those ages 1-19 rose nearly 30% from 2019 to 2020, the analysis says, more than doubling the increase observed in the general population.

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