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Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on suicide deaths for the year 2020 were published in the
Journal
of the American Medical Association (JAMA). According to the new data, deaths by suicide declined from 47,511 to 44,834 (5.6%) between 2019 and 2020.
1 Suicide has reportedly decreased from the tenth to the eleventh leading cause of death as COVID-19 became the third leading cause of death.
We spoke to Dr Christine Yu Moutier, Chief Medical Officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), about this provisional data.
Do the CDC data make you optimistic?
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Christine Yu Moutier, MD, Credit: AFSP.org
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