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. 2021 Sep;66(9):830-831.
doi: 10.1177/07067437211018398. Epub 2021 May 17.

Suicide Deaths in British Columbia during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

David Barbic  1   2 , Frank X Scheuermeyer  1   2 , Skye P Barbic  2   3 , William G Honer  4   5
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Suicide Deaths in British Columbia during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

David Barbic et al. Can J Psychiatry. 2021 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; mental health; suicide.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
Autoregressive integrated moving average model of expected suicide deaths versus observed suicide deaths for British Columbia for the study period.
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