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

[-] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago

Something finally beat guns.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Getting murdered 4th place feels preventable 🤔 more guns and less regulations should fix it

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Oh, "a leading" not "the leading"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Accidental is #2? Like people dropping babies?

Edit, oh, this includes teenagers

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Car accidents, falls, drownings, poisonings (ie eating something you shouldn't), fires. There are a lot of horrible ways to go.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 6 months ago

Department of Computer Science?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Analysing lots of data.

Kind of study we call social data science.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

I thought that would be under social studies or medicine or math (statistics) and not part of the computer science department

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I did a degree that was “social data science” and we were part both of the computer science and the social science department, so to me it isn’t shocking a study like this might be attributed to the computer science department.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Not a government department, a university one.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I guess I expected a collaboration with experts from the medicine world