Gun violence should be treated with same urgency as COVID-19, UChicago Medicine’s trauma center director tells congressional panel
At a recent Senate hearing on gun violence, the University of Chicago Medicine’s Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., MD, MPH told lawmakers that gun violence is a public health crisis that needs to be treated with the same urgency as COVID-19 and that attention should be focused on people who are likely to use guns, especially those in distressed communities.
