• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Am I wrong in interpreting these charts to mean that there was just no data about 5-14 year olds…? They are at 0 for both.

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      17 days ago

      They just die of other things. The CDC tracks 20 different injury types and 45 broad non-injury causes of death. The 5-14 group die mostly of septicemia, “machinery” injuries, and an “Residual,” “All other diseases” category, but even those big 3 only account for 40% of all 5-14 deaths.

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          17 days ago

          It took a while, but the repeated questions eventually got me to double check and find the 5-14 year old group was misaligned. Edited the post with corrected graphs. 5-14 year olds are (relatively) protected from guns & cars, but there’s no tween-killing machinery running rampant.