To understand the severity of the risk posed to this agent, consider the differences between auto-vs-pedestrian (AvP) injuries and gunshot wounds (GSWs) from a trauma surgery perspective. Whenever a code 1 trauma comes in and its an AVP, I always know it's going to be a total disaster - would take GSW's any day of the week. And there is a reason for this. You can compare the two using a the Abbreviated Injury Scale (scaled between 1 to 6; 1 being minor, 6 is unsurvivable). At an average speed of 16mph, there is a 10% chance of having an AIS of 4+ (i.e. fatal or near fatal injury). This goes up to 25% at 25mph. To put this in perspective, the average GSW to the head or the torso has an average AIS of 4+. And then there is the fact that GSW's on average spend less time in the hospital than AVP's and a not insignificant number of GSW's can be discharged from the ER - one study found up to 70% (may be a little high but even in my own experience I discharged two GSW's from the ER over the last few weeks). This is all to say that AVP is serious business given the nature of the injury (big hunk of metal vs soft, squishy human).

@EithanHaim Your two GSW discharges, were either of those wounds to the head?