from nine pediatric emergency departments including Chicago’s Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. In this photo is an ambulance is seen outside the Lurie children's Hospital in Chicago on Dec. 12, 2022. Child deaths and injuries from guns after arrival to pediatric hospital emergency rooms doubled during the pandemic, according to a national study of data from nine U.S. pediatric hospital emergency departments.
“Death in the emergency department/hospital increased from 3.1% pre-pandemic to 6.1% during the pandemic,” the results of the study show. “Before pandemic onset, 18.0 pediatric firearm injury ED visits occurred per 30 days. During the pandemic, firearm injury ED visits increased to 36.1 per 30 days, which was twice the expected rate based on extrapolated pre-pandemic trends, with an observed to expected rate ratio of 2.09.
“With the pandemic we saw a drastic increase in firearm purchases, which might have led to the tragic spikes in injuries and deaths from firearms among children and adolescents,” said the study’s lead author Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, pediatric emergency medicine physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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