Plural of 'fatal'; people or things that cause or result in death or destruction; fatal injuries or instances.
Plural of 'fatal' used as a noun. This is primarily used in medical, legal, or statistical contexts to refer to deaths or fatal cases collectively.
In medical and public health language, 'fatals' appears in phrases like 'reducing traffic fatals'—it's a bureaucratic way of talking about deaths that creates emotional distance from the human tragedy being counted. The language we choose changes how we think about these statistics.
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