science

14984 readers

548 users here now

A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.

rule #1: be kind

<--- rules currently under construction, see current pinned post.

2024-11-11

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

202

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

submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 33 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Something finally beat guns.

[–] paysrenttobirds 20 points 16 hours ago

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.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 16 hours ago (2 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)

[–] jballs 4 points 10 hours ago

Jesus Christ, 659,041 kids had heart attacks in 2019!?! Or are you citing statistics that aren't relevant to what's being discussed in this thread?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] sorghum 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 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.