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Keeping schools safe with evidence instead of assumptions (clip from NEJM interview)
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Keeping schools safe with evidence instead of assumptions (clip from NEJM interview)

School lockdown procedures are not based on evidence and may be more harmful than helpful during both drills and actual attacks.

Clip from my interview on the New England Journal of Medicine Intention to Treat podcast.

I’m on the show with Dr. Cornelia Griggs, a pediatric trauma surgeon and education director of the Center for Gun Violence Prevention at Massachusetts General Hospital.


David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database and a national expert on school shootings.

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