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The number of firearms in households with teenagers has increased since the onset of COVID-19
December 02, 2021 6:00 PM
Patrick Carter, M.D., is an emergency physician at Michigan Medicine, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and of Health Behavior & Health Education at the School of Public Health, and co-director of the U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. He is also part of the leadership team for the Firearm Safety among Children and Teens (FACTS) Consortium, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The number of firearms in households with teenagers has increased since the onset of COVID-19
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