COVID-19’s Weakness Is Its Strength

... Disease: 50,000 deaths or 152.8 per 100,000 Cerebrovascular Disease: 14,000 deaths or 42.3 per 100,000 Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases: 10,000 deaths or 30.0 per 100,000 Accidents: 9,700 deaths or 29.5 per 100,000 In 2018 there were 4,157 suicides in Canada: making it the 9 th leading cause of death behind Alzheimer’s Disease. With an economy currently on life support in some sectors, the number of suicides will likely climb higher this year as people succumb to job loss, the inability to pay their mortgage or credit loans, and bankruptcies. In the last month alone, there have been ...