MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) – Doctors in the Grand Strand are sharing a warning of a high-risk community susceptible to drowning.
Dr. Stephanie Radu with Grand Strand Medical Center said that kids with autism are 160 times more likely to drown than children who are not on the spectrum.
Radu said all three drowning deaths documented in their emergency department this summer have been non-verbal children with autism…