Together in a time of physical distancing
Autor
Murthy, Vivek H
Institución
Resumen
Could there be a stranger time for
a book about social connections
than during a period when we have
seen the most dramatic global effort
ever to keep people away from one
another? In the first half of 2020, the
world was in the grip of fear about the
COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries
instituted some form of physical
distancing for their whole populations
to mitigate the spread of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2). Emerging data from
this period showed that reports of
loneliness and attendant depression
and anxiety increased compared
with 2019.