The rate at which kids were struck by gunfire in the nation's three largest cities doubled during COVID lockdowns, especially among Black children, a new study has found.
Wednesday in JAMA Network Open, examining police data on children under 18 from 2015 to 2021 in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. They also looked at Philadelphia, which has the highest gun homicide rate of any city with a population of more than 1 million.
That rate increased to 16.64 injuries out of every 100,000 children after schools, public spaces and non-essential businesses shuttered on March 15, 2020. The steepest increases occurred in New York City and among Black children, the study found. It called for “mental health interventions in the most affected communities and to target structural racism as a fundamental driver of the US firearm violence epidemic.”
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