Fig. 1

Weekly gunshot wound (GSW) assault hospitalizations per 1,000,000 North Carolina residents, 2019–2020, stratified by race/ethnicity. The black lines represent the timing of the four executive orders assessed in the analyses (U.S. declares public health emergency, North Carolina statewide Stay-at-Home order, statewide Phase 2: Safer-at-Home order, and statewide Phase 2.5: Safer-at-Home order); gray lines represent the time of the other COVID-related executive orders. Weekly trend changes in bold are statistically significant (p < 0.05)