This CDC study investigated weekly firearm injuries that presented to the Emergency Room.
During the study period, compared with 2019, mean weekly ED visits for firearm injury were 37% higher in 2020, 36% higher in 2021, and 20% higher in 2022, with differences by sex-specific age group (Table). Among both females and males, mean weekly ED visits for firearm injuries were consistently highest among persons aged 15–24 years across the entire study period. However, the largest increases in the proportion of firearm injury ED visits were among persons aged 0–14 years during 2020 (VRs = 2.81 for females and 2.31 for males, respectively), 2021 (VRs = 2.20 and 1.85), and 2022 (VRs = 1.49 and 1.44), compared with 2019.
The good news is firearm injuries are down. The bad news is that they are still up over pre-pandemic levels.
