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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
URGING THE U.S. CONGRESS TO PASS H.R.2370, THE ACCESS to AEDs ACT
WHEREAS, heart disease (including coronary heart disease, hypertension, and stroke) remains the No. 1 cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States and cardiovascular diseases claim more lives each year than all forms of cancer and chronic lower respiratory disease combined accounting for 1 in every 4 deaths; and
WHEREAS, heart disease is the leading cause of death in Cook County as well, accounting for just for 10,259 deaths in 2021 of that, 4,974 were in the City of Chicago and 5,285 were in suburban Cook County; and
WHEREAS, Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller and the Board of Commissioners approved resolutions creating in person and virtual "hands only" CPR & AED training, and including the virtual training as part of the on-boarding process for new employees and which is available to all county employees providing the knowledge needed so we can eliminate one of the barriers to not being able to survive a heart attack; and
WHEREAS, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the estimated annual incidence of heart attack in the United States is 805,000 attacks, 605,000 are new attacks and 200,000 are recurrent attacks with Americans suffering a heart attack approximately every 36 seconds; and
WHEREAS, as many of us were so soberly reminded of last year with the on field cardiac event suffered by Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin, CPR/AED training is vital to helping people survive such an event, and Mr. Hamlin has since teamed up with the American Heart Association to launch his #3forHeart(tm) CPR Challenge aimed at saving more lives through CPR education and training; and
WHEREAS, additionally, Sudden Cardiac Arrest can strike at any time and occurs in 7,000-23,000 youth under the age of 18 each year in the United States. Data shows that prompt CPR initiated by a bystander and the use of ...
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