Justin Boggs is a writer for the E.W. Scripps company. Justin covers anything from politics to sports and entertainment.
From 2011 to 2021, there was a steep increase in gun deaths and drug poisoning deaths among children, even as injuries from most other causes decreased over the decade, according to a new study.
The study said that fatal injury rates in 2011 were 14.07 per 100,000 children. By 2021, that number increased to 17.30 per 100,000 youths. "There is work to be done," said study co-author Rebekah Mannix, associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School."We have bent the arc in terms of reducing pediatric nonfatal injuries overall but fatal injuries are on the rise because kids have more access to lethal means ."
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