The coronavirus pandemic is part of the explanation for the sharp rise, but there are other factors, including the difficulty in identifying when a death is related to family violence.
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Peter Biello is the host of All Things Considered on GPB. He's worked in public radio since 2007 — at WHQR in Wilmington, NC, Vermont Public, and New Hampshire Public Radio — and has won numerous AP and Murrow Awards. He earned his MFA in Fiction from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and his fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, he now lives in Atlanta.
