The Wall Street Journal has an excellent piece pointing out that death rates among young people have been rising. here's a quote from the article:
Between 2019 and 2020, the overall mortality rate for ages 1 to 19 rose by 10.7%, and increased by an additional 8.3% the following year, according to an analysis of federal death statistics led by Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, published in JAMA in March. That’s the highest increase for two consecutive years in the half-century that the government has publicly tracked such figures, according to Woolf’s analysis.Other developed countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Norway also saw a rise in some death counts among young people during that time, though the upticks were often concentrated in narrow age groups or one gender, according to global death counts provided by Christopher J.L. Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
Here is the graphic from their article:
One of the comments made reference to how homeless or living rough should be considered a cause. I agree. That's not well captured in the medical data--it's hard to attribute a specific cause. However, watching videos of homelessness, especially places like Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood,. one gets the sense that there are too many young lives off course in our country.
