Medical correspondent elizabeth cohen to tell us more. elizabeth? john, this is so unfortunate. so many lives have been taken by gun violence, and i think just now we re beginning to get a real picture of how much worse it got during the pandemic. take a look at these numbers. now, this is from a study that was recently published in the medical journal jama. they were looking at march 2020 through february 2021, some of the worst parts of the pandemic, and they said there were more than 62,000 firearm related incidents during that time. 62,000. that means 10,000 kexcess non-fatal injuries in the united states, and 4,400 excess deaths, 15% higher than we would have expected based on previous trends. in other words, if it had stayed the way it was pre-pandemic, we would have expected it to have been much lower than this. let s take a look at an analysis that cnn has done based on