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US records highest increase in nation's homicide rate in modern history, CDC says
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
Updated 8:13 AM ET, Wed October 6, 2021
(CNN)The United States has just recorded its highest increase in rates of homicide in modern history, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Provisional data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, released early Wednesday, suggest the homicide rate for the United States rose 30% between 2019 and 2020. It is the highest increase recorded in modern history -- and confirms through public health data a rise in homicides that so far had been identified only through crime statistics.
The previous largest increase in the US homicide rate was a 20% rise recorded from 2000 to 2001 because of the September 11 terror attacks, according to NCHS.
"It is the largest increase in 100 years," Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at NCHS, said...
US records highest increase in nation's homicide rate in modern history, CDC says
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
Updated 8:13 AM ET, Wed October 6, 2021
(CNN)The United States has just recorded its highest increase in rates of homicide in modern history, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Provisional data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, released early Wednesday, suggest the homicide rate for the United States rose 30% between 2019 and 2020. It is the highest increase recorded in modern history -- and confirms through public health data a rise in homicides that so far had been identified only through crime statistics.
The previous largest increase in the US homicide rate was a 20% rise recorded from 2000 to 2001 because of the September 11 terror attacks, according to NCHS.
"It is the largest increase in 100 years," Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at NCHS, said...