A San Francisco Suicide Prevention report on the calls it receives shows that between the end of February and the beginning of April — as the novel coronavirus began to spread in the community, workers were laid off en mass, and small businesses shuttered — the number of medium- and high-risk calls increased by 60%.Meanwhile Van Hedwall, a gay man who serves as SF Suicide Prevention's director of programs, was hemorrhaging volunteers — the organization did not yet have a way to work from home.