than before the pandemic, and most of these cases are not the results of mass shootings. we should be aware, cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen, has details for us. victor aymara. a new cdc study looks at what happened with firearm injuries during the pandemic. let s take a look at the numbers if you look at visits to u. s emergency rooms for firearm injuries from 2019 to 2022, they went up 20% now it wasn t a complete climb. there were some ups and downs, but over those three years they went up by 20. and the visits to emergency rooms. the numbers were highest for people ages 15 to 24. when you look at weekly visits, they were more than five times higher for males than females. other cdc research shows that will mass shootings might get the most amount of attention. actually there are more deaths, not in mass shootings, there are more deaths actually, on the smaller scale shootings that we don t even hear about all the time. victor
unfortunate to have to even be speaking to you about this topic. but here we are, unfortunately again, and many people are hearing about r fifteens again and the injuries from these are 15 is the reason these days rampages are so deadly is because of how deadly these weapons are compared to other guns. we have an animation doctor that i want to show you that the washington post put together it shows the trajectory of a 2 23 caliber sized round fired from an a r 15. and the bullet enters the body and then burst into the chest cavity. can you just explain for our viewers what this rifle actually does to the human body? sure um, you know, these, um high velocity firearm injuries such as the ar 15 that you re showing creates devastating wounds. um big body cavities, um, are seen if the victim makes it to the trauma
learned about how we can save more lives from high velocity firearm injuries. by looking back at the patients that we did not receive and how we could help them. slow down there bleeding. help them. we feel the tank because you only have so much blood in the human body, and if we could refill that tank before they get to a hospital. then there s a potential to save those lives and we talk about assault weapons in this country and just i just want to put i mean as gruesome and horrible as this conversation is, it s needed to inform the political conversation. so when you talk about a r 15, there s another animation. the washington post has. it just simply shows the differences and exit wounds between an ar 15 and a smaller nine millimeter. so the small, isolated hole from a nine millimeter bullet fired by a handgun in blue and then in orange that s the gaping exit wound from the air 15. uh the difference here is very stark.
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