Suicide-Related Internet Searches During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US
- 4 January 2021
- journal article
- letter
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Network Open
- Vol. 4 (1), e2034261
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.34261
Abstract
Experts anticipate that the societal fallout associated with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic will increase suicidal behavior, and strategies to address this anticipated increase have been woven into policy decision-making without contemporaneous data.1,2 For instance, President Trump cited increased suicides as an argument against COVID-19 control measures during the first presidential debate on September 29, 2020.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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