{"id":172044,"date":"2018-07-19T02:09:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T06:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=172044"},"modified":"2018-07-19T02:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T06:09:40","slug":"schumer-measures-needed-to-reduce-toddler-drownings-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/19\/schumer-measures-needed-to-reduce-toddler-drownings-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer: Measures needed to reduce toddler drownings in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_172046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172046\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/720px-Chuck_Schumer_official_photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172046\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/720px-Chuck_Schumer_official_photo.jpg\" alt=\"Schumer is calling on the federal government to take steps to help prevent drowning deaths. (Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio\/Jeff McEvoy\/Public Domain)\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/720px-Chuck_Schumer_official_photo.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/720px-Chuck_Schumer_official_photo-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schumer is calling on the federal government to take steps to help prevent drowning deaths. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schumer.senate.gov\/about-chuck\">U.S. Senate Photographic Studio\/Jeff McEvoy<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=60875280\">Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ALBANY, N.Y. \u2013 U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says a new report shows the number of drownings involving toddlers in the U.S. has increased in recent years, with young boys dying at twice the rate of girls.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer is calling on the federal government to take steps to help prevent drowning deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate minority leader from New York says data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2014-2016 show 1,300 children 4 or younger died of drowning, with total deaths rising each year. According to the CDC, 436 were girls and 864 were boys.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer says according to the CDC, three children drown every day in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>He says the CDC should develop a program to inform parents about the dangers that swimming pools and waterways pose to toddlers, especially boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. \u2013 U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says a new report shows the number of drownings involving toddlers in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":172046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[23882,8487,15965,352],"class_list":["post-172044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-drowning","tag-toddler","tag-us","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}