{"id":57558,"date":"2023-04-25T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57558"},"modified":"2023-04-25T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T19:08:12","slug":"children-are-dying-at-rates-not-seen-in-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57558","title":{"rendered":"Children Are Dying at Rates Not Seen in 100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/span>Peter White<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Between 2019-2021, gun deaths among young Americans rose 50% and surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Guns are the biggest killers of American children and are tied to an unprecedented rise in suicides and homicides among this generation, according to new data that paints a damming portrait of childhood mortality in the US.<\/p>\n

Drugs are now the third leading cause of death, according to the most recent figures.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut in plain terms, it basically means the probability of young people reaching age 20 is now decreasing,\u201d said Steven H. Woolf, a professor of Family Medicine and Population Health at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. \u201cWe\u2019re now losing our most cherished population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woolf is the author of a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showing that in addition to guns, deaths among adolescents from drug poisoning rose 94% in 2020. In 2021, 77% of all teen overdose deaths\u00a0involved fentanyl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking during Ethnic Media Services\u2019\u00a0weekly news briefing<\/a>\u00a0last week, Woolf stressed that death rates among infants, children, and teenagers in most industrialized countries have been falling for many years. But in the US, pediatric success in treating childhood leukemia and curing birth defects has been offset by deaths from guns and drugs.<\/p>\n

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