yes, An increase of suicides due to each 1% increase in unemployment is estimated to be a low of 4,000 to 40,000. With a projected unemployment rate of 30% , the annual deaths from suicide may be as high as 120,000 to 1,200,000 and may exceed that of deaths from COVID-19.
Some of us have been saying for awhile now that the economic calamity from a locked down economy will dwarf the damage this virus could cause on it’s best day. It could literally take 10+ years to recover from this economically, assuming socialism isn’t fully implemented in the interim.