Fingerlakes1.com Menu Have a tip for the newsroom, press release, local event listing or digital content to share? Send it here. Support our mission by visiting patreon.com/fl1 and becoming a monthly subscriber. Some health officials in the region are voicing concerns about increases in suicide, as well as other health issues getting brushed to the side. Dr. Robert Cole, who serves as Steuben County Coroner, spoke with Finger Lakes News Radio about this topic. “My own experience through this COVID epidemic is that I’ve seen an increase in drug deaths, increase in deaths from chronic conditions when patients were not able to go back and see their providers last spring and early-summer,” he explained. Many doctors offices were closed as a precaution during the early days of the pandemic.