With Americans getting ready to hit swimming pools and beaches on Memorial Day weekend, a new study shows that many lack the skills they need to stay safe in the water.
After decades of decline, accidental drowning rates are rising in the US, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported.
"All of a sudden, I guess he got swept away, within seconds," said Ashley Cheng, a family friend of the Huangs. "They were waiting, and the next day they found and told them they found Justin in the bottom of the river."The rise in drownings comes in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. Each year, on average, about 4,000 Americans died from accidental drowning, a number that changed little from 2011 to 2020.
Additionally, the CDC's swimming skills survey found that 1 in 3 Black adults said they couldn't swim, compared with 1 in 7 adults in the general population, a legacy of segregation and discrimination in access to swimming pools in the US, according to the CDC. Berkeley Champlin didn't know the statistics around drowning deaths in young children until her son, Gordie, tragically became one of them.
Champlin set a goal of paying for three kids to learn to swim each year. This year, 42 families reached out to her for help, and she set up a GoFundMe account to raise money to cover them all.
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