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Episode 131: A COVID Fog

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The Importance of Social Isolation in the 21st Century

Mike Downey: Social isolation is harmful and increased mortality. How can we deal with this kind of isolation? What could we have done to minimize that? We need vaccines access and paid sick leave, he says. He adds COVID will not be the last pandemic to strike the U.S., next one could be worse.Downey: I'm writing a new book on what lessons we should have learned from the pandemic. There are many, there are many and we can't turn away from this.

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