U.S. Middle & High School Teen Mortality, 2008-2021: Homicides & Overdoses versus Respiratory Diseases

Jun 14

Pandemic-response policy fail

Note: I recognize that some 18-year-olds are no longer in high school. However, the majority of 18-year-olds who died in 2020 and 2021 were in high school (or should have been) at some point during the covid pandemic.

UPDATE: Check out my Twitter friend Mary Pat Campbell’s new childhood morality post.

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Childhood Mortality Trends, 1999-2021 (provisional), Ages 1-17

There was the monthly update of the provisional deaths data at CDC WONDER last week, and I’ve been pulling data. There is still bad news in there for 2021, and I’m reading the tea leaves for 2022 (still bad signs on homicides, drug ODs, etc.) so I thought I’d go seeking some good (and not-so-good) news in the childhood mortality stats…

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U.S. Middle & High School Teen Mortality, 2008-2021: Homicides & Overdoses versus Respiratory Diseases

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