Stat (April 7 ) Social Distancing Can Test If Technology Could Solve the Loneliness Epidemic As the coronavirus spreads exponentially across the United States, widespread social distancing is thought to be our best weapon against rampant transmission.
Minimizing human contact can slow the rate of spread — flattening the curve — and avoid a surge of sick patients that would strain our health care system to a point where it cannot effectively care for them...
The conundrum is that these mandates — prudent and necessary as they are — are overlaid against the backdrop of an epidemic of loneliness in the U.S.