Firearm injuries that sent victims to the hospital had gone down steadily over the five years before the COVID-19 pandemic began, but reversed course sharply over the next two years, a new University of Michigan study finds.
Michigan Medicine - University of MichiganJan 27 2025
These groups had firearm hospitalization rates 44%, 46% and 41% higher, respectively, than they would have if pre-pandemic trends had continued. Raymond Jean, M.D., M.H.S., lead author of the new study and trauma surgeon at Michigan Medicine, U-M's academic medical center While there are peaks and valleys in firearm hospitalizations and firearm sales every year, both the peaks and valleys for both measures dropped steadily from 2015 to 2019. But by the summer of 2020, firearm hospitalizations had shot up to higher than the highest peak of the previous five years. This lagged the rapid rise in firearm sales during the first months of 2020.
Even so, Jean hopes the findings could help spur further research using other data sources, and inform policy efforts to reduce firearm-related injuries and deaths, including suicides, interpersonal violence and accidents.
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