What Is Killing Children

At a time when a lot of our national narrative is concerned with paying for children and the gender of children, let’s look at this for a second.

If you want all the data (or a slice of the data) on this, consider this link.

Here is a “nut graf” paragraph:

The first real alarm bells coincided with the pandemic. That’s when the mortality rate among children and adolescents shot up by more than 10 percent in a single year. These children weren’t felled by some spreading contagion; their deaths were sudden and “almost always preventable,” as Dr. Coleen Cunningham, the pediatrician in chief at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, puts it. Deadly car accidents among tweens and teens climbed nearly 16 percent. Murders went up 39 percent. Fatal overdoses more than doubled.

If you want to see the specific categories: