Yesterday, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy’s office unveiled an advisory titled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation,” which lays out the vast toll — in health, productivity, education, civic engagement and more — caused by our increasingly atomized lives. “Given these extraordinary costs,” he wrote in The Times, “rebuilding social connection must be a top public health priority for our nation.”
www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf