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... From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. What if some of the same strategies used to manage a pandemic could also be used to curb gun violence.

As gun sales spike and Senate Republicans block gun control measures, doctors and community

advocates are looking to public health approaches for help.

California has tried some public health strategies that have led to new laws and policies. we look at how well they're working as the nation grapples with the school shooting in Uvaldi. Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. More than 45,000 Americans died in 2020 from gunfire. One to two percent of those deaths were from mass shootings. With a death count that high,

doctors and health advocates have been calling gun violence a public health emergency. And as the U.S.

grapples with another spade of horrific mass shooting, Sacramento, Buffalo, Orange County,

Evaldi, among others, we look this hour at what it means to treat gun violence as a public health problem

and meet people who've been doing that work in California, like Dr. Garen Wintamute, an ER doctor and a professor of emergency medicine at UC Davis,

also the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program and

University of California Firearm Violence Research Center.

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