Some troubling statistics printed just lately by Woolf et al. (2023) utilizing CDC WONDER information:
Between 2019 and 2020, the all-cause mortality fee for ages 1 to 19 years elevated by 10.7%, and it elevated by an extra 8.3% between 2020 and 202…These will increase, the most important in many years, adopted a interval of nice progress in lowering pediatric mortality charges. Although many of the upsurge in pediatric mortality was attributable to deaths amongst older youngsters (ages 10-19), all-cause mortality in youthful youngsters (ages 1-9) additionally elevated in 2021 (by 8.4%).
There are additionally important disparities when it comes to which teams had been impacted by the elevated charges of mortality.
The enhance in damage deaths that occurred in 2020 primarily concerned males…non-Hispanic Black youths accounted for two-thirds (62.9%) of murder victims aged 10 to 19 years; in 2021, the murder fee amongst non-Hispanic Black youths aged 10 to 19 years was 6 occasions that of Hispanic youths and extra than 20 occasions that of Asian/Pacific Islander non-Hispanic youths and White youths.
Moreover, gun violence has elevated:
Firearms…are the main reason behind dying amongst youths aged 1 to 19 years and accounted for practically half (47.8%) of the rise in all-cause mortality in 2020
Some very sobering statistics certainly.