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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, @07:12PM
Which ones do you want to count? The deaths of seriously ill people that happened to have the virus in addition? The suicides of the people left in despair without a job? The women beaten to death by their husbands stuck at home because "Covid"? And yeah, the preventable deaths due the state locking down long-term care and prevention for chronically ill people and those that didn't know. The deaths of those abandoned and left to starve in nursing homes, that the state neglected to monitor while it prohibited concerned relatives from accessing them?
The drowning deaths of those that pick unsafer natural bodies of water to swim in, because the government closed down the chlorine heavy pools?