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COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US | University of Oxford (www.ox.ac.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Something finally beat guns.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Stay on topic, we're talking about children here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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.

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