US homicides by firearms concentrated among Black youth before, during, and after the start of COVID-19 pandemic

Firearm homicide victimization crude rates. Credit: JAMA Network Open (2024). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.12946 In 2020, the United States saw the largest one-year increase in homicides since 1960. In a new study, researchers examined disparities in race and ethnicity for deaths by firearm homicides from 2018 to 2022, before, during, and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. They found that deaths by firearm homicide were concentrated among Black 15- to 24-year-olds in all of the years studied, suggesting that social and structural conditions contributed to these racial disparities. The article, by researchers at the University of Miami and the University of Read More