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Eliot Engel: “There is also a growing concern about a rise in suicide, as we have heard before, which before the pandemic had…”

On the recordJune 29, 2020
There is also a growing concern about a rise in suicide, as we have heard before, which before the pandemic had increased by nearly 30 percent in New York State since 2000 and nationally was the tenth-leading cause of death.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel highlights the alarming rise in suicide rates exacerbated by the pandemic.

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