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With bad pandemic news and endless social distancing, it can already feel like the longest winter ever. But keeping up nourishing bonds of human connection is possible with a little ingenuity.
With COVID-19 cases still soaring across the U.S., it can be tempting to just ride the winter out on the couch, binging on Netflix. But psychologists say it s important in 2021 for us all tokeep up human contact. Isolation and particularly quarantines and lockdowns have been associated with increases in distress, depression, anxiety, says Dana Rose Garfin, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine s Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing.