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    Cost of gun violence: hospital charges for 100,000 shot annually reach $2.8bn

    Johns Hopkins study of gun violence surveys emergency room admissionsIf lost wages are added, ‘really startling’ costs rise to $45bn annually
    by Jessica Glenza in New York Oct 02, 2017 3 minutes
    Report author: ‘Previous studies just focused on the mortality, but ignored the larger chunk of people who don’t die but are affected by this issue.’ Photograph: vm/Getty Images

    More than 100,000 people are shot each year in the US at a total cost of $2.8bn in hospital charges, a study published on Monday has found. If lost wages and hospital charges are considered together, the authors said, the annual cost of shootings in the US could be as high as $45bn.

    The study was published in the journal Health Affairs, hours after the deadliest mass shooting in American history, at a music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday. At least 58 people were killed and 515 wounded.

    Although mass shootings represent the most high-profile. The study, which looked at more than 150,000 patients in a national database of emergency department visits between 2006 and 2014, is one of just a handful on American gun violence published each year, because of a .

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