The homicide rate for older U.S. teenagers rose to its highest point in nearly 25 years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
in child and adolescent death rates overall at the beginning of the pandemic, and found suicide and homicide were important factors.—Suicide and homicide death rates remained far higher for older teenagers and young adults than they were for 10- to 14-year-olds.
—The homicide death rate jumped from 8.9 deaths per 100,000 teens aged 15 to 19 in 2019 to 12.3 in 2020. It rose to 12.8 deaths per 100,000 in 2021, the highest since 1997, according to CDC data. —While large increases were seen in homicide rates for young Black and Hispanic people in the U.S., there were not significant increases for their white counterparts, other CDC data shows.
Suicide death rates in children and teens were rising before COVID-19, but they jumped up at the beginning of the pandemic. Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, a psychiatrist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, said the reasons may be hard to pinpoint, but that isolation during COVID-19 lockdowns could be a factor.
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