HealthDay (6/8, Norton) reports researchers found that visits to the emergency department at the Cleveland Clinic “for suicidal ideation dropped by over 60% in the month after [Ohio] instituted its stay-at-home order.” Dr. Baruch Fertel of the Cleveland Clinic, the study’s senior researcher, said, “The question is: Where are these patients now? Are they just brushing off their problems? Are they getting help through telemedicine instead?” The findings were published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.
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— “Fewer Suicide-Related ER Visits in COVID Era, and That Has Experts Worried, ” Amy Norton, HealthDay, June 8, 2020