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nature.com/articles/s41562-020

"Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan"

For children and adolescents specifically, suicides increased by 12% in the first five months, then 49% in the next five months.

The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in healthy children/adolescents is ~0.4/million infected. Over the ten months studied, the suicide rate in children increased by ~9.0/million.

23x more suicides than covid deaths, even assuming 100% infected. Nuts.

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