The weekend of the Working Day is one of the deadly holiday weekends for wear and tear and water -related tragedies. However, as recently forgiving a disease of the prevention of disease control and prevention, Americans lose their main source of information to save lives.
Studies and drowning data promote our programming in the National Alliance of Suspension Prevention, and so far the CDC drowning prevention team has played an important role in our efforts. The agency and that team helped us to better understand what’s sinking, where they drowned and why we could create effective drowning prevention programs. That is why it seems to us that the drowning team has recently been dismissed and its work immediately stopped it.
It is just as scary to hear that all programs seem to be missing from 2026. Budget.
These so -called cost reduction efforts will have the impact of pulsation throughout the water safety community. The lack of enough field has now lost some of our brightest leaders and its access to data that can help us save lives. When someone thinks that the country’s alarming statistics and the fact that drowning in the US economy costs more than $ 50 billion a year, according to the CDC account, these reductions make no sense.
The drowning is silent but avoids a global epidemic. The information we have from the CDC tells that every year the US loses more than 4,000 people of all ages and all kinds of water to accidentally sink. Drowning is the main cause of death from 1 to 4 years of children and remains the main cause of the death of older children, adolescents and adults.
We should all worry about the latest CDC statistics, which shows that 2019-2022 Children with a age of 1-4 increased by 28%and older adults increased children aged 65-74. 2019-2021 The percentage of black people increased by 28%. The percentage of the sinking of the American Indians or Alaska was higher than any other race or ethnic groups, and blacks are the second largest.
Based on 2017 Children with autism are 160 times larger than the population of the general children. These sober statistics are not just numbers; They are relatives lost due to preventive tragedies and represent families and communities that have a major impact on these drowns.
We sincerely believe that it is very important to increase, not to reduce federal research and drowning prevention resources. In this way, water safety proponents working throughout the US will have data, research and evidence -based strategies needed for water safety education and drowning prevention programs that work. We will continue to work together to avoid drowning so that all people have knowledge and skills to safely enjoy water. We, and I personally, do this work by honoring those who would lose and affect the drowning.
The weekend of the Working Day is another reminder of how vital people and families have the basic knowledge of water safety.
Fortunately, sinking can be avoided. Unfortunately, there is no single solution to prevent drowning, so we recommend that you use protection layers. Here are some simple water safety tips to share with your family and friends to have fun with all kinds of water and water in the environment.
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Obstacles and alarms: It is the first and critical line of physical defense to limit illegal access to the pool, spa or other body of water. This includes: four sides enclosures; self -igniting and self -evident gates; Alarms of doors, windows and pools, as well as portable alarms; and s drowning detection systems. We know that 70% of young children are drowned in unintentional, so this is necessary.
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Care: Constant, capable and undecided maintenance is another critical layer of protection needed to prevent drowning. Always designate a water observer when children are in or around the water, whose only job is to observe the water and be able to respond immediately in the event of an emergency.
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Learn to swim: People of all ages should learn to swim and acquire basic water safety and survival skills, such as floating, emanating water and safely entering the water and leaving the water. It is also important to know your abilities and be able to navigate not only in pools, but not only swimming pools.
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Wear life jackets: When in or around open water, it is necessary to wear a rescue jacket approved by a properly attached US Coast Guard. According to 2018 The statistics of the Coastal Service, More than 80% of open water drowning are persons who have not worn life jackets; Life jackets save lives.
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Preparation for emergencies: Learn how to recognize the trouble swimmer and make sure you can always seek help. Knowledge of CPR with rescue breathing and basic water rescue skills can be the difference between life and death.
Free water safety resources and educational materials can be found on www.ndpa.org.
The National Alliance of sinking prevention is asking for the restoration of the CDC drowning prevention team. The community of drowning prevention brings together our resources, partnerships and cooperation efforts to keep this work on, hoping that our CDC colleagues will soon be back. But so far we have to use available data, our collective experience, proven strategies caused by courage and stories that have lost a lover to sink or affect a avoiding Water -related tragedy to reach families and communities.
This article was originally published in msnbc.com