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The lasting consequences of school shootings on the students who survive them

  • Written by Maya Rossin-Slater, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University
imageA girl grieves for a friend killed in the Uvalde shooting.Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

As the U.S. reels from another school shooting, much of the public discussion has centered on the lives lost: 19 children and two adults. Indeed, the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas is the second deadliest such incident on record, after...

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