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COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US | University of Oxford

www.ox.ac.uk COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US | University of Oxford

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Computer Science has found that, between 2021 and 2022, COVID-19 was a leading cause of death in children and young people in the United States, ranking eighth overall. The results demonstrate that pharmaceutical and public h...

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Something finally beat guns.
- Maybe not. Data wasn't broken down by choice of weapon.
  
  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.
  
  Getting murdered 4th place feels preventable 🤔 more guns and less regulations should fix it
- 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)
  
  Stay on topic, we're talking about children here.
  
  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?
Oh, "a leading" not "the leading"
- You mean like "falling into a single rusty nail is the leading caused of tetanus of the eye? But only a leading cause of loosing an eye?" Scientists, though, have proven that falling right on a rusty nail pointing perfectly upwards with its pointy side straight into the eye is 100% effective at inducing eye removal surgery.
This study is for 2021-2022 during the peak of COVID and is not indicative of the current situation. While we still have to be vigilant, accidents, murder and especially intentional self harm should be way more concerning
Accidental is #2? Like people dropping babies?

Edit, oh, this includes teenagers
- Car accidents, falls, drownings, poisonings (ie eating something you shouldn't), fires. There are a lot of horrible ways to go.
Department of Computer Science?
- Analysing lots of data.
  
  Kind of study we call social data science.
  
  I thought that would be under social studies or medicine or math (statistics) and not part of the computer science department
- Not a government department, a university one.
  
  I guess I expected a collaboration with experts from the medicine world

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