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A cure for America’s loneliness epidemic may be intergenerational workplace friendships

Summary by Fast Company

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the United States finds itself in the midst of another public health crisis. This particular pandemic is a psychological one: widespread loneliness and isolation. About half of adults in the U.S. report feeling lonely—what former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has characterized as an epidemic. The increase in social isolation has extensive costs for “schools, workplaces, and civic organizations, where …

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A cure for America’s loneliness epidemic may be intergenerational workplace friendships

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The Minnesota Daily

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Gen Z still needs to heal from COVID-19

Everyone remembers the story. In March of 2020, students worldwide awoke to the news that spring break came early. What began with a week off from school spiraled into the COVID-19 pandemic, the most staggering global emergency Generation Z may ever experience. Most high school students missed at least one semester of in-person schooling. Extracurricular activities were canceled indefinitely. Thousands were saddened to miss out on milestone ev…

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Social regulation of gene expression in human leukocytes - Genome Biology

Social environmental influences on human health are well established in the epidemiology literature, but their functional genomic mechanisms are unclear. The present study analyzed genome-wide transcriptional activity in people who chronically experienced high versus low levels of subjective social isolation (loneliness) to assess alterations in the activity of transcription control pathways that might contribute to increased adverse health outc…

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Plagued by memories: UMMC leaders reflect on COVID’s 5th anniversary

JACKSON – Five years ago this spring, we began living or dying with COVID. In the attempt to slow down the disease, we became bogged down in months and months of disillusionment and dissolution.

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Weldon: Did we learn or not? Why there can be no going back on COVID lessons

Five years ago this month, COVID-19 changed the world. The first pandemic in a century altered how Americans saw themselves, each other, work, health care, relationships, government, mortality, and media. It tangled everyone across the globe in webs of fear,…

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