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The United States is on track to report its lowest number of pediatric hot car deaths in a year since record-keeping on the subject began more than three decades ago, and child safety groups are pointing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as a big factor.
With summer right around the corner, there have been two pediatric vehicular heatstroke fatalities across the country in 2020, well below normal for the first five-plus months of a calendar year. The average number of hot car deaths for children through June 10 is around nine, according to Jan Null, the founder of NoHeatStroke.org, a website that tracks hot car deaths across the country and analyzes vehicle heating dynamics.
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In past documented cases, the most likely days for children to gain access to a vehicle were Saturdays and Sundays, when school wasn't in session."With fewer parents and caregivers traveling to work, and fewer children attending childcare and pre-school, it is imperative that all drivers, even those without children, lock their unattended vehicles so children cannot gain access,"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:40PM (1 child)
I'd love to see a study that looks at total expected deaths for the year and compares that to this year's actual count.
Extra cancer deaths as people fear going to doctor offices for treatment (there was a study that showed this).
Lower number of deaths from small children being locked in hot cars.
Lower transportation fatalities (also already reported)
Less gun violence (already reported)
Lower number of cases of the flu and thus lower deaths due to the isolation efforts (also already reported).
etc.
If a net positive, I wonder if adding the extra deaths from COVID-19, if we still have a net positive as a result of the lockdown?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @12:05AM
https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac846c [ft.com]