Rise in deaths from drug overdose and firearm injury during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and its impact on organ transplantation

Table 1 Characteristics of United states population (18-75 years old) who died from firearm and substance abuse during 2014-2021

Characteristics		Firearm crude rate (per 100000)	Substance abuse crude rate (per 100000)	P value
Race or ethnicity	Hispanic or Latino	9.3	31.6	< 0.001
	American Indian or Alaska Native (non-Hispanic)	18.6	122.0
	Asian or Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic)	3.4	8.4
	Black or African American (non-Hispanic)	33.4	46.3
	White (non-Hispanic)	13.9	54.8
Gender	Female	4.4	29.5	< 0.001
	Male	25.8	66.1
Census division	Division 1: New England	6.7	58.4	< 0.001
	Division 2: Middle Atlantic	8.6	46.9
	Division 3: East north central	15.6	53.3
	Division 4: West north central	16.3	41.0
	Division 5: South Atlantic	17.2	48.6
	Division 6: East south central	24.5	53.6
	Division 7: West south central	18.8	34.6
	Division 8: Mountain	19.2	58.5
	Division 9: Pacific	10.5	43.6
2013 Urbanization	Large central metro	13.5	36.6	< 0.001
	Large fringe metro	11.2	36.7
	Medium metro	15.0	41.7
	Small metro	15.4	39.4
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	16.9	40.0
	Noncore (nonmetro)	19.2	37.2

Table 2 Characteristics of deceased organs donors (18-75 years) from 2014-2021

Baseline characteristics		All donors			Drug overdose donors		Firearm injury donors		P value
		n		%	n	%	n	%
Total donors		79790			11230	14.1	6095	7.6
Gender	Male	48391	60.6		6787	60.4	5077	83.3	< 0.001
Race	White	53224	66.7		8929	79.5	3530	57.9	< 0.001
	African American	12099	15.2		987	8.8	1550	25.4
	Hispanic	11476	14.4		1108	9.9	879	14.4
	Asian	2027	2.5		100	0.9	57	0.9
	Others	964	1.2		106	0.9	79	1.3