The Biden administration is enlisting America’s doctors to help combat gun violence. Health Brief is a coproduction of The Washington Post and KFF Health News. About have been invited to the White House today and Friday to promote public health solutions to the epidemic.
A top priority, I’m told: The White House wants hospital emergency departments to collect more data about gunshot injuries their physicians treat, as well as routinely counsel patients about the safe use of firearms. It’s part of the president’s strategy to build support for gun-safety measures outside the Capitol, where legislation to more strictly regulate firearms can’t overcome mainly Republican opposition. Biden’s to talk to parents about safe gun storage and .
“The president has been clear: This is a public health crisis. So, to solve it, we need the leaders from the health-care sector,” , a deputy director of the White House , told me in a phone interview. “Those are the leaders that run the health systems and hospitals that we go to for treatment, and it’s those doctors, nurses, practitioners on the front lines.
” Health experts have long described gun violence as a public health crisis, one that disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic residents in poor neighborhoods. Biden’s election opponent, former president , has assailed his gun policies and that “if the Biden regime gets four more years, they are coming for your guns.” In 2022, more than in the United States, or .
