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Originally Posted by UrbanImpact
Sadly the #1 cause of death to children in the United States are guns  |
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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Yeah, you're right. Auto accidents are #2. Either way the leading cause of death in children is a failure of government.
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This shocked me so I did a little more looking into it. Not that these details discount anything either of you said, but in case anyone else was curious as I was, motor vehicles have long been the leading cause of death for children/adolescents (ages 0-19), but guns became the leading cause in 2020, due in large part to a steady decline in the past ~25 years of motor vehicle deaths (great!) but also a much more recent spike in gun deaths (not great). See e.g. the chart in this paper:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761