How loneliness can affect your health, and what you can do to combat it, with Prof Andrea Wigfield
Instant Genius
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Loneliness and the COVID Pandemic
I don't think that there's necessarily a clear pattern emerging yet anyway of a long-term trend towards increased loneliness. But I think at the moment, it's too early to say because of the pandemic, we don't know whether levels will settle down. About 4 million people in Great Britain was said to be experiencing chronic loneliness. So obviously it is an issue and something we need to monitor.
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