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Looking at publications by Timothy Cunningham, the CDC scientist who recently went missing. He has been doing some very good and interesting work. https://twitter.com/i/moments/967192292103565312
Cunningham is first author on this longitudinal study of disparities in death rate among Black Americans, published May 2017. The study went from 1999-2015 and would have been conducted under the 1996 NRA-bought ban on the CDC’s study of gun violence as an epidemic.
The paper’s results point to disease-related behaviors among Black populations and a need for interventional practices. But the fact that homicide remains far and beyond the leading cause of death for Black Americans aged 18-35 is minimized.
The fact that homicide spiked drastically among this group with no leveling off beginning in 2014 is not even mentioned.
Also noticing a preponderance of news items about Tim Cunningham’s disappearance that highlight the words ‘ebola’, ‘zika’ and ‘not feeling well’ even though infectious disease is not his field.
I hope Tim Cunningham is ok, hopefully just taking some time off from the stress of operating under an administration that has stripped his work of meaning.
Afternote: If anyone can find a definition for “Unintentional injury” (second highest cause) in the Methods section, I’d be curious to see if it encompasses accidental shooting by law enforcement. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5687082/
