Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy spoke to the Akron Roundtable Nov. 12 about the importance of addressing loneliness by building up community.

Murthy served as the 19th and 21st U.S. surgeon general and is founder and chair of the nonprofit organization The Together Project.

Murthy said it's important to have multiple types of connections, including with family members, friends and colleagues.

Speaking to the Akron Roundtable Nov. 12, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said multiple factors "are driving a culture of loneliness and isolation."

“It's a consumer culture that tells us that we are constantly not enough and then tries to sell us things to make us enough," Murthy said. "It's a political culture that tries to turn us against each other all the time and

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