CDC Director ends CDC's silence on guns
'Something has to be done': After decades of near-silence from the CDC, the agency's director is speaking up about gun violence
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/health/cdc-gun-research-walensky/index.html
"The scope of the problem is just bigger than we're even hearing about, and when your heart wrenches every day you turn on the news, you're only hearing the tip of the iceberg," Walensky said. "We haven't spent the time, energy and frankly the resources to understand this problem because it's been so divided."
For example, the CDC is spending $2,224,482 to fund a surveillance mechanism that tracks, in nearly real time, the number of people coming into emergency rooms with nonfatal gunshot wounds. It collects data on the intent of the injury -- documenting, for example, whether it was self-inflicted, unintentional or related to an assault.
"We don't even know who enters the emergency department, in most places, as a result of firearm injury -- we don't even know it," Walesnky said.
The agency is also spending $8,085,935 on 18 research projects to prevent gun-related violence and injuries.
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