Don’t use ’deaths of despair’ as rationale for premature reopening - STAT
▻https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/31/deaths-of-despair-wrong-rationale-reopening-country-too-soon
Following congressional testimony last week about frontline workers’ experiences during the #Covid-19 epidemic, members of the U.S. House of Representatives raised the specter of a rise in “deaths of despair” due to Covid-19 shutdowns. They implied that the country had a moral obligation to reopen quickly, if only to avoid current and future deaths from suicide, homicide, opioids, and alcohol.