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As gun violence persists, CDC research is hamstrung

About a month ago, a gunman sprayed more than 500 bullets across the CDC campus in Atlanta, killing one person. Days later, the Trump administration fired more than 150 of the agency’s violence and injury prevention specialists. “These are researchers and practitioners with unique expertise in violence prevention that does not exist elsewhere in the federal government,” said Tom Simon, who retired from the CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention in April.

The continued need for such research

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