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Yes, but... CDC, our go-to agency, was already in the throes of reorganization... or perhaps dismantling, depending on your outlook... when things got real with COVID-19. And, NIH, and by extension, CDC was prohibited from studying anything about shooting violence for so long, they'd lost the ability to rapidly do an assessment on these events until only recently.

Add to this our missteps with communication (note what Jha just told a group of docs about needing to step up to combat misinformation and disinformation with their patients as authoritative trusted soucr.

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