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Why we need to think of health as an ‘us,’ not just a ‘me’

The Decibel

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How Does Loneliness Affect People's Health?

There was a sense of, you know, how do I protect myself? Dan Worb, who is the author of The Invisible Siege, this great book about the rise of coronavirus isn't. He had this wonderful line in it about how vaccines are not meant to protection a person from infection, but they're meant to protect a community or a population from epidemics. Same sort of concept applies to masks too. The idea is you're trying to protect people on masks, not just one specific person.

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