During the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy did not exactly emerge as one of the nation's more prominent public health officials, despite the high status of his position.
The lack of social connection, Murthy writes, is making Americans “angry, sick, and alone.” And if social networks were already being disrupted by economic, social and other forces before the pandemic took hold in 2020, lockdowns, school closures and the rise of remote work have only exacerbated the crisis.
Murthy describes a study of 10,000 14-year-olds that “found that greater social media use predicted poor sleep, online harassment, poor body image, low self-esteem, and higher depressive symptom scores with a larger association for girls than boys.”
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