Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks at a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing about the coronavirus on March 11.
“We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess that we had as background than we are seeing the deaths from COVID,” he said.
Center for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield testified in a Buck Institute Webinar that suicides and drug overdoses have surpassed the death rate for COVID-19.
Roughly 146,000 people have died from COVID or COVID-related causes in the U.S., according to CDC data.
According to the American Medical Association, “More than 35 states have reported increases in opioid-related mortality as well as ongoing concerns for those with a mental illness or substance use disorder in counties and other areas within the state.”
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