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.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Getting murdered 4th place feels preventable 🤔 more guns and less regulations should fix it

[+] Limonene@lemmy.world -11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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)

[–] SelfProgrammed 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Stay on topic, we're talking about children here.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

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?