A swimming pool in the dark, with only low lighting. The swimming pool is divided into lanes for lap swimming.

We Should Shut Down All Swimming Pools in the United States Immediately to Prevent About Four Hundred Pediatric Deaths Annually

Do I have your attention? Let’s talk about why we won’t shut down all pools to prevent those drownings, nor will we shut down schools to prevent a comparable number of…

René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
5 min readAug 23, 2021

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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH

DrPH in Epidemiology. Associate/JHBSPH. Adjunct/GMU. Epidemiologist. Father. Husband. (He/Him/His/El)