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More youth received emergency care for self-harm in 2021 than in 2020, reversing decline in youths’ intentional injuries
BY MELISSA PATRICK KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS Fewer young people in Kentucky got emergency care in the first year of the pandemic for intentional injuries, but in the second year, the number rose, mainly due to a 15% increase in cases where youth, mostly girls, harmed themselves. That’s according to a report from the Kentucky Injury…