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Episode: Small US groups combat historic levels of social isolation
Description: Americans are disconnected from each other at historic levels, buffeted by what a former surgeon general calls an “epidemic of loneliness.” “Loneliness is one of the most pressing challenges that’s facing our country, the United States, but also the world,” said Vivek Murthy, the former Surgeon General, and founder of the Together Project.
Recent polling shows that membership rates in religious faiths are at their lowest in nearly a century. And Americans have fewer close friends than they used to, according to the Survey Center on American Life. They trust each other less.
A Community Health Deputy and peer specialist...