Below please find a summary and link(s) of new coronavirus-related content published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. The summary below is not intended to substitute for the full article as a source of information. A collection of coronavirus-related content is free to the public at http://go.annals.org/coronavirus.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Firearms in the United States: Will an Epidemic of Suicide Follow?
Since February 2020, as U.S. public health efforts have focused on containing the spread of COVID-19, gun sales in the country have skyrocketed, physical distancing necessary to curb transmission has disrupted social networks, and Americans have faced an unprecedented combination of a public health and economic disaster. The authors of a commentary from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School express concern that this perfect storm could lead to a suicide epidemic and discuss ways to address the potential crisis. Read the full text: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M20-1678.