CNN (4/17, McPhillips) reports, “As more communities reel from deadly mass shootings…there’s evidence that the trauma of gun violence in the United States is taking a collective toll on” mental health in the US. In fact, “research published” online Feb. 8 in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance “suggests that the negative effects that mass shootings can have on mental health may extend beyond the survivors and community directly affected to a much broader population.” To date this year, there have been “at least 162” mass shootings in the US.
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— “As gun violence reaches record levels in the US, an underlying trauma may be building up ” Deidre McPhillips, CNN, April 17, 2023