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US HAS THE HIGHEST RATE OF GUN-RELATED DEATHS IN MORE THAN 25 YEARS, NEW CDC
DATA SHOWS

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN



Updated 2151 GMT (0551 HKT) May 10, 2022


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(CNN)Far too often, Dr. Debra Houry found herself covered in blood.

As an emergency physician in the United States for about 20 years, Houry said,
it was a "frequent occurrence" to treat young men in the emergency room for
gunshot wounds. They often would "bleed out" on her as she was resuscitating
them.
Then she would search the hospital for a clean white coat to wear "so that I'd
look respectable and presentable to talk to their families -- or to somebody
that did survive but then was paralyzed or had traumatic stress as a result of
it," Houry said.



"That was heartbreaking."

The rate of gun-related deaths in the US appears to be getting worse.
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The US firearm homicide rate in 2020 was the highest recorded since 1994,
according to data published Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, where Houry serves as acting principal deputy director and head of
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Between 2019 and 2020, the overall firearm homicide rate increased about 35%,
according to the new data in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.



"The COVID-19 pandemic might have exacerbated existing social and economic
stressors that increase risk for homicide and suicide, particularly among
certain racial and ethnic communities," CDC researchers wrote in their report.
"The increases in firearm homicide rates and persistently high firearm suicide
rates in 2020, with increases among populations that were already at high risk,
have widened disparities and heightened the urgency of actions that can have
immediate and lasting benefits."
In 2020, 79% of all homicides and 53% of all suicides involved firearms,
according to the CDC, which is somewhat higher than during the preceding five
years.


GUN HOMICIDES RISE, SUICIDE RATES REMAIN LEVEL

CDC researchers examined data on gun deaths from the agency's National Vital
Statistics Systems and National Center for Health Statistics while looking
closely at county-level data and US Census Bureau data on poverty.
The researchers found that during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, US counties
with the highest poverty level had firearm homicide and firearm suicide rates
that were 4.5 and 1.3 times as high, respectively, as counties with the lowest
poverty level.
"That's a big take-home for me," Houry said. "Because if we're going to look at
where to intervene, it's in a lot of these impoverished communities."


From 2019 to 2020, the overall firearm homicide rate climbed from 4.6 deaths to
6.1 deaths per 100,000 people nationwide, according to the new data. But that
increase was not equally distributed, revealing widening disparities in
homicides.
The largest increases in 2020 occurred among Black boys and men ages 10 to 44
and American Indian or Alaska Native men ages 25 to 44, the data showed.
The CDC's findings on the firearm homicide rate tracks closely with the FBI's
2020 Uniform Crime Report, released in September.
The FBI's data shows a 29.4% increase in homicides between 2019 and 2020, the
largest jump the agency has ever recorded. The UCR recorded the homicide rate in
the US as 6.5 per 100,000 people. The report also stated that homicides are
increasingly carried out with firearms, stating that about 77% of reported
homicides in 2020 were committed with a gun, up from 74% in 2019. There is no
federal database of gun sales, but other independent surveys have found that gun
sales have soared during the Covid-19 pandemic.


Meanwhile, the overall firearm suicide rate among people age 10 and older
remained nearly level between 2019 and 2020, climbing only slightly from 7.9 to
8.1 deaths per 100,000 people, the CDC researchers found in their new report.
How to get help:

In the US, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.

The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide
also provide contact information for crisis centers around the world.


"Although the overall firearm suicide rate remained relatively unchanged between
2019 and 2020, young persons and some racial/ethnic minority groups experienced
increases in firearm suicide," the researchers wrote.
The largest increase occurred among American Indian and Alaska Native people,
resulting in the group having the highest firearm suicide rate as of 2020.
The report did not include information on the specific type of firearms used.
"Oftentimes that information is not included in the death certificate. When it
is included, the most common type of firearm is a handgun," Thomas Simon,
associate director for science at the CDC's Division of Violence Prevention,
said Tuesday.


'WHEN I WENT TO MEDICAL SCHOOL, THIS WASN'T SOMETHING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT'

Gun violence is a "significant public health problem," Houry wrote in an opinion
paper with Simon and Dr. Alexander Crosby, published Tuesday in the medical
journal JAMA.
Rise in gun violence during pandemic adds strain to overburdened hospitals

They note that clinicians can play a role in talking to patients about gun
safety, but medical schools often do not incorporate firearm safety, violence
prevention and social determinants of health in their curricula.
"When I went to medical school, this wasn't something that we talked about or
were trained on. I didn't start thinking about it until I saw the consequences
of it," Houry said.
As a student in medical school in the late 1990s, Houry knew that gun violence
was a problem in America. "But I don't think I knew the magnitude, and I also
don't think I realized the personal impact it would have on me and on my
patients," she said.
In their JAMA paper, Houry and her colleagues referenced a survey of more than
1,000 family physicians that found almost half of family physicians, 46%,
reported having no training in firearm safety counseling and about two-thirds,
68%, did not feel knowledgeable discussing safe storage devices for firearms.
"But those who had received formal training were more likely to report a higher
level of comfort with asking patients about firearm ownership," Houry said. "So
for me, it's about making sure clinicians understand their role and then have
the tools on what to do."


'WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE DE-CONFLICT OUR SOCIETY'

Communities can also use these new data on firearm deaths to consider
interventions to reduce violence.
"Child-care subsidies can reduce stressors and prevent violence," Houry said.
"We've also funded research around greening initiatives to where you can go in
and make a vacant lot look better by planting grass and trees. That's been shown
to reduce firearm assaults by up to 29% in impoverished areas."
The CDC is funding 18 two-year research projects on gun violence. "With the
recent congressional appropriations for the past two years, we've been able to
fund 18 promising projects to look at innovations to prevent firearm violence,"
Houry said during a media call Tuesday.
The climbing US homicide rate is a concerning threat to the nation's public
health -- but not surprising, Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the
American Public Health Association, told CNN last year.
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He said the rise in homicides has occurred parallel to a recent rise in overall
violence, hate, tensions, political divisions and anger displayed in communities
across the country.

"We're literally seeing it in front of our eyes -- at school board meetings and
public events," Benjamin said.
"People seem to have lost all civility, and then you couple that with having to
stay home and being stressed from that, losing your job, losing resources, fear
for your health, more guns," he said. "I think we need to figure out how we
de-conflict our society."

CNN's Brenda Goodman and Priya Krishnakumar contributed to this report.

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