Insights from the Gun Violence Data Dashboard
March 3, 2022
The increase in gun deaths across the US in 2020 was driven by homicides and not all regions of the country were affected equally by the spike in gun violence.
The increase in gun deaths across the US in 2020 was driven by homicides and not all regions of the country were affected equally by the spike in gun violence.
Five key takeaways about the overdose epidemic and the intersection with COVID-19 that are revealed by the CDC’s overdose mortality data.
To shed light on the role mortality data plays in understanding health and health disparities, this analysis explores mortality rates and totals for all of the underlying conditions that the CDC listed as one of the “15 leading causes of death” in the past 20 years, excluding COVID-19.