Statistics show that suicides increase during pandemic’s and Covid is no exception. Some are estimating up to an 145% increase for 2020, mostly in youth, followed by middle-aged white males.

From 1999–2018 suicides were up 35%.
In 2018 48,344 Americans committed suicide.
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4352

Realistically, what are your thoughts on how we can help prevent suicides, as citizens, in such a turbulent period in our country’s history?
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This makes it one of the leading causes of death globally. Around twice as many die from suicide as from homicide. Suicide is more common than homicide across most countries in the world – often as much as ten to twenty times higher.
https://ourworldindata.org/suicide