Gun violence in a pandemic

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🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Though mass shootings have happened less often during the pandemic, gun deaths remain high in the U.S. And, an independent panel says the AstraZeneca vaccine trial data is misleading.

On Monday afternoon, a man walked into a Boulder, Colo., grocery store and started shooting. Ten people were killed, including a responding police officer. Reporter John Woodrow Cox lays out what we know about the second mass shooting in a week and addresses the misconception that gun violence has stalled during the pandemic.

After AstraZeneca announced that trials determined the vaccine it produced with Oxford University was 79 percent effective, an independent panel says the company used outdated and misleading data. William Booth reports on the ramifications.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this is Vanessa Williams from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hey, it's Philip Rucker at the Washington Post.
0:12.0	Do you have a minute?
0:13.0	Hi, this is Dan Zagfel.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Lena Muhammad.
0:19.0	It's Tuesday, March 23rd.
0:24.0	Today, why the pandemic didn't stop gun violence?
0:28.0	And the questions scientists are asking about the AstraZeneca vaccine.
0:35.0	Thank you, Dan.
0:38.0	Thank you for everybody being here today.
0:41.0	The dozens of agencies continue to investigate yesterday's mass shooting.
0:46.0	At the King's supers, it's their 3600 table mesa drive.
0:50.0	The Boulder County corner office.
0:52.0	Shortly after 230 local time yesterday, a 21-year-old man who has now been identified as Mod Alyssa,
1:00.0	walked into a grocery store in Boulder and started shooting.
1:04.0	That is reporter John Woodrow Cox.
1:07.0	Very shortly thereafter, the police arrived and there was a gunfight.
1:12.0	He was wounded.
1:14.0	A police officer was killed as well as nine other people.
1:18.0	He was wounded, deceased, denny strong, 20 years old.
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