The Power of Connection: Addressing Chronic Loneliness | Iza Correll | TEDxPacific Avenue

[Applause] Loneliness doesn't just hurt, it kills. And that's not a dramatic statement, but a fact based on science. Loneliness raises our all cause mortality rate by 26%.And in combination with social isolation, that goes up to 30%. And yet we're still treating it as something elusive or soft like it's a weakness. But I'm Dr.. Isa Carell and I'm a USPA dy licensed as a clinical officer in Kenya and a doctor of medical science specialized in global health. And at just 24 years old, I became the founder of O ...