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https://archive.is/ay461 [LA Times]
Loneliness is an epidemic, and the health risks are ‘profound,’ U.S. surgeon general warns
Isolation and loneliness are an epidemic as damaging to Americans’ individual and public health as smoking and obesity, the surgeon general of the United States said in a stark advisory issued Tuesday.
Nearly half of U.S. adults reported experiencing loneliness in recent years, according to research cited in the advisory.
