Public health officials now say deaths due to SARS-CoV-2, will be around 81,766 when the final tally is done, much fewer than the 200,000 deaths that Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, originally predicted. Unfortunately, due to the economic catastrophe that is in the process of being triggered by shutting the country down, it’s possible that deaths due to suicide will probably be well above 100,000.
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CNN Health April 7, 2020
NBC News March 30, 2020
The Lancet Psychiatry February 10, 2015