"This drop is quite noticeable and interesting and probably unexpected for most people.”

Sally Curtin, a statistician at the CDC, regarding a new report that found, overall, a 3 percent decrease in suicides in 2020, a decrease of approximately 1,600 people. April had the starkest decrease, 14 percent fewer people died by suicide than in April 2019. However not every racial group saw the same decrease; Black people between the ages of 15 and 24 and Hispanic people between the ages of 25 and 34 both saw double digit increases in suicide rate in 2020. (NPR — November 3, 2021)