Shooting deaths among young men in poor neighborhoods boosted the national cost of youth violence during early COVID-19 lockdowns, a team of federal researchers has found.
Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. The center is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The greatest share of this burden was from firearm homicides among males, which spiked in 2020 — the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic — to oversuch devastating deaths, even while [emergency room] visits for nonfatal assault injuries among youth were at their lowest level for the observation period,” Cora Peterson, a co-author of the study and health economist at the CDC’s Injury Center, told The Washington Times.
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