A study showed that death rates for kids and teenagers surged in 2020 and 2021.

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Mortality Rates For Children & Teens Surged In 2020, 2021

The death rate for us kids and teens surged in 2020 and 2021 and it was not because of the coronavirus. A newly published study in the journal of the American Medical Association says guns, drugs, cars, they're all killing kids and teens at an alarming rate. The pediatric death rate rose by nearly 11% in 2020 and more than 8% in 2021. Now, from 2019 to 2020, injury mortality increased 23% for people between 10 and 19 years old. Homicides drove a lot of that increase. They rose more than 39% deaths from drug overdoses. Well, they soared 100 13.5%. Pediatric deaths have been rising for a while now. But these latest numbers are the largest that we've seen in decades.