With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'

Federal layoffs affected teams at CDC that research injuries — including car crashes — to understand how to prevent them. Car crashes are the second leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 12.

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

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