Name: Dr. Vivek Murthy: Mental & Physical Health During Coronavirus | The Daily Social Distancing Show
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T17:52:12.000Z
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and then thank you for talking to me here, I should say.

I feel like we have to change our language

who has a unique incite into what is happening now.

As somebody who served as the U.S. Surgeon General,

and that is essentially keeping the nation healthy.

to send doctors in to fight the coronavirus

when the government is not giving them the equipment

What do you think people are missing about the fight

Well, Trevor, this feels very personal to me.

You know, it is my friends, my family members

and colleagues who are on the front lines now

of the war that we're waging with this new virus

to go into battle without the armor they need.

There are doctors who are having to reuse masks

even though they know that puts them at greater risk.

There are doctors who are running out of gowns and gloves.

There are hospitals that are running out of ventilators,

and they're trying to figure out how to use one ventilator

and share them between two patients at the same time.

So it is not wrong to ask doctors and nurses to work hard.

without the protection that they deserve.

on ramping up production of all of the materials that they need.

It's not enough to say "We'll do it when we need it."

"Well, it's up to somebody else to solve that problem."

we need to be making this the top priority,

because doctors, nurses and health care workers

are putting their lives on the line for us,

and it's high time that we had their backs.

A growing consensus, uh, that's starting to emerge

both online and, unfortunately, in the White House, is

some people are calling it, is gonna be worse

What do you think people are missing when they say,

"We're just gonna have to live with this,

Well, I think it's, look, important to consider the pros

And let's be honest. There is no perfect approach here.

Uh, but it is, I think, a false choice to say

that we have to choose between people's lives and the economy.

that we should be addressing this virus is to recognize

and make sure that these are in place, uh,

we really should not be thinking about pulling back.

both the health and the economic situation much, much worse.

Before I let you go, um, you have a book that is coming out

that we all find ourselves in right now, and that is,

we are isolated from people that we know and love.

about how society is struggling with a new disease,

What are some of the things people can do

I'm glad you asked, Trevor, because it's important,

not just because loneliness makes us feel poorly,

that chronic loneliness is actually bad for our health.

to ensure that we strengthen social connection.

And as hard as this time is, I think that we can potentially

come out of it even stronger if we do a few things.

that we spend at least 15 minutes a day, if not more,

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