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)
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?
Stay on topic, we’re talking about children here.
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.
Department of Computer Science?
Analysing lots of data.
Kind of study we call social data science.
Not a government department, a university one.
