MedPage Today (4/20, D’Ambrosio) reports, “Gun-related deaths increased significantly among children and adolescents in 2020, becoming the leading cause of mortality among youth, researchers said.” According to the researchers, “the crude rate of firearm-related deaths among individuals ages 1 to 19 years increased by 13.5% from 2019 to 2020, surpassing motor vehicle-related deaths for the first time since 1999.” The findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine also revealed “drug overdoses and poisonings increased by 83.6% among children and adolescents, making it the third leading cause of death for this group.”
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