Why is it that an organization that is supposed to be dedicated to preparing our country for response to DISEASE and all that goes with finds itself needing to do “studies” on guns and gun violence, domestic violence and all the other politically-correct topics? Why is that?
It is because of Funding. Government funding. CREATE a problem, condition or disaster and then herald the need through a complicit media to garner MORE funding. This is THE problem with academia today. Publish or perish. Get outside funding or die. Justify yourself, even if you have to whore out your credentials with the media equivalent of a back alley bl@w job It means comfortable [deserved] survival in a world that can’t understand why you can’t really do anything worthwhile like fix a toilet leak or change a fuse, or figure out why your can has that knocking song.
And to top it off, I might add that the very place desperate humans surviving the most famous zombie outbreak, “The Walking Dead,” went to for salvation was a CDC center and they ended up getting nothing.
The truth is that if/when a biological disaster hits, the CDC will collapse.
It is the American Academy of Pediatrics who did not peer review the material, or it is the cherry picking of data classes to make the info fit the desired (misleading) narrative by the doctors, not the CDC who are to blame.
Note that in the abstract "Arin L. Madenci and Christopher B. Weldon, claims that from 1997 to 2009, in-hospital deaths of children resulting from gunshot wounds increased nearly 60 percent, and hospitalizations of children for gunshot wounds increased 80 percent." (emphasis mine).
As usual, we don't know where the cutoff age for children is for these doctors, it might be 26, nor whether these wounds were the result of people (including police) defending against criminal activity, which would include a large number of perps in the line of fire. Taking data which include intentional shootings by those defending property or life against criminal activity and including the criminals as wounded or dead children (within the age bracket), would inflate the numbers. Presenting that as 'accidental' would make it appear there is a growing problem, when in fact reality is the opposite.
Simple and accurate answer : Hussein, the "if I like your health insurance, you can keep it. period." doofus is running everything!