SIO323: Did COVID Precautions Increase Adolescent Suicide Risk?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
That's the claim made by many right wing anti COVID restriction people. What's more, it seems to be based on a CDC report. So is there anything to it? Find out!
Links: Yard et al (2021) CDC report, Popular press coverage of report 1, 2, 2020 CDC report (claiming that adolescent ED visits for mental health increased by 31% in 2020 compared to 2019), CDC Reports on decline in total ED visits for March/April 2020, Through March 2021, Timing of State and Territorial COVID-19 Response, CDC Mortality data 2014-2019, 2020-2022 (provisional), WISQARS nonfatal injury reports, WISQARS fatal injury reports, Lindsey's Graphs
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to series inquiries only this is episode 323 I'm Thomas and I'm joined |
| 0:17.7 | by Lindsay. |
| 0:18.7 | Oh boy. |
| 0:19.7 | I want to leave a little suspense like just if maybe they thought I was going to say |
| 0:22.7 | and Lindsay is gone but now you're here. |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah no I'm not gone. |
| 0:27.6 | No it's good because you're not gone. |
| 0:29.7 | It's a suspense. |
| 0:30.7 | Oh I see. |
| 0:31.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.7 | Anyway I'm so happy you're back because science thingy yeah science thingies are among my favorite |
| 0:37.5 | thingies. |
| 0:38.5 | Me too. |
| 0:40.7 | And having you explain them to me even better. |
| 0:45.0 | This is this this topic I imagine might be kind of tough so this is related to COVID restrictions |
| 0:52.4 | and the fact that there's an obvious backlash against them by I don't know right wingers |
| 0:58.4 | I guess I don't I don't really understand where it comes from exactly but I guess how |
| 1:04.6 | do you even describe that group people Trump supporters who want the bad things to not |
| 1:09.6 | exist so they so they don't want to do anything or what what even is that group of people |
| 1:15.5 | I don't know. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm failing in the moment to come up with it like what's the big Lebowski quote like at least |
| 1:22.7 | that's a ethos or whatever it's like I don't even know how to describe these people. |
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