Don't shoot the messenger!
The article in Pediatrics is called Dying to Play Videogames.
The article recommends safety warnings to make parents cautious about videogame use after a disaster.
Blaming the generators directly is the same fallback as blaming the knife after a gaming-related stabbing. Yes, we all know that it was the generator use that caused the CO poisoning, but if you read carefully, the point is that the generator use mainly stemmed from gaming, which is a different cause to what was originally thought (lighting, air conditioning, refrigeration).
To disregard that because you want to claim sensationalism is silly. If the main cause of generator use was refrigerators, and a headline read "Refrigerator use linked with CO poisoning following Hurricane Ike", would you really have batted in eyelid?
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