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by DanBC 1620 days ago
There's a lag with suicide data. For example, in the UK, the data comes from date of registration not the date of death, and death registrations are delayed because of the huge numbers of people dying by covid.

And then there's probably a lag in deaths too - anyone working in suicide is being very cautious about the early data showing decreases or no rises, because we don't know what's coming.