544 - The Increase in Gun-Related Deaths During the Pandemic

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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New CDC data shows that during the pandemic, gun-related homicides and suicides surged to record highs. Ari Davis, a researcher at the John Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, talks with Stephanie Desmon about the spikes, some possible contributing factors, and effective public health solutions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.0	I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement,
0:17.0	and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore.
0:19.7	Our goal is to bring evidence and experience to illuminate critical public health issues.
0:25.5	If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to Public Health Question
0:29.4	at jh.hu.edu.
0:31.7	That's Public Health Question at jhu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:36.9	Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer, Public Health On Call. for future podcast episodes.
0:40.8	Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer, Public Health on Call.
0:46.2	Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Ari Davis, a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins and a researcher at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
0:49.6	They discuss new CDC data that suggests gun homicide and suicide rates spite to their highest
0:56.6	levels ever in 2021.
0:59.2	And so did new gun purchases by first-time gun owners.
1:03.0	Let's listen.
1:05.0	Ari Davis, thanks so much for joining me.
1:07.9	Yeah, thanks so much for having me on today.
1:10.1	So today I wanted to talk about some new data that you and your colleagues have analyzed
1:14.4	that comes from the CDC on gun violence.
1:18.1	Give me the big picture.
1:20.8	Yeah, so we have looked at CDC gun death data from the CDC database, and it's based on death records.
1:33.2	So we looked, during the pandemic, we were interested to see kind of what happened with
1:37.9	fire and fatalities.
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