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Military Suicides Spike During COVID-19: ‘It’s Isolation That Will Absolutely Kill’

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Photo: Israel Palacio via Unsplash
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By Dan Andros
Managing Editor

September 29, 2020

Despite starting the year off on the right track, military officials are reporting that during the coronavirus pandemic suicides among military personnel have spiked 20%, an alarming indication that isolation and social distancing is possibly having a disastrous effect on our armed forces.

Suicides were down in the first three months of 2020, but then the globe was hit with a pandemic. The threat of coronavirus ultimately launched restrictions on human interaction — precisely the kind of interaction individuals at high risk of self-harm so desperately need.

Faithwire Managing Editor and host of Faith vs. Culture on CBN News Dan Andros spoke today with Jeremy Stalnecker, a veteran and Executive Director of the Mighty Oaks Foundation and discussed the troubling rise and what people can do to help stop it.

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