The suicide rate from 1999 until 2019 increased by 35%[1]. It's been an unaddressed growing systemic issue for a long time. As of June 23, the COVID death rate was 36 per 100,000[2] in just a handful of months. As of 2019 the average suicide rate was 14 per 100,000[1]. Unless that suicide rate does an unprecedented 250% jump it's not going to have the impact Covid has had so far, not to mention the rest of the year, which as we can see is going to be messy given the rate of increases (many of the current hotspots had a big jump in deaths per day the last couple of days).

It's tragic that suicide is increasing, it really is, but COVID is the far greater threat.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db362.htm

[2]https://www.statista.com/chart/21170/coronavirus-death-rate-...