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From the suicide perspective, a great but nuanced study. It shows that presentations for suicide attempts overall dropped in the US (5300/week prior to the pandemic starting to 4944/week after the pandemic started).
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From the suicide perspective, a great but nuanced study. It shows that presentations for suicide attempts overall dropped in the US (5300/week prior to the pandemic starting to 4944/week after the pandemic started).
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This figure here shows this... you can see the number (in thousands, take a sharp drop during covid and gradually restore (albeit not above pre-pandemic levels).
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However, in terms of relativity to other presentations to the ER, that drop was much less, so the Rate (suicide attempts per 100,000 ER visits) increased.
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So, no, there weren't more suicide attempts. But it is certainly true that the proportion of suicide attempt cases that ERs were seeing was higher.
Ie:
100 apples, 100 oranges
Lose 60 apples (now 40), 20 oranges. (now 80)
"I'm seeing twice as many oranges"
Ie:
100 apples, 100 oranges
Lose 60 apples (now 40), 20 oranges. (now 80)
"I'm seeing twice as many oranges"
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