Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy On Why Loneliness Is A Public Health Crisis

Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy On Why Loneliness Is A Public Health Crisis

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Long before coronavirus spread around the world, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy was sounding the alarm about a different, quiet epidemic: loneliness. We’ll talk to him about why so many Americans are suffering from loneliness and what we can do to take better care of each other even as we’re asked to be physically apart. Vivek Murthy and Jack Beatty join Meghna Chakrabarti.