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dr. murthy: great question. steve, great to be with you again, and i want to thank caremore and the atlantic for hosting. thank you, sachin. i will tell you, this is one of the subjects i find most important. when i was in office, when i had the privilege of serving, i had to engage on many different topics. i worked on zika, ebola, the opioid epidemic, a host of other public health issues. but when i would go out into communities and talk about issues, and more importantly listen to what people cared about, very often behind their stories were stories of loneliness and stories of isolation, and that's what first clued me in to the fact there was something going on we needed to address. now, i found this to be true in communities all across america. was not just urban communities, also rural communities. not just people who defined themselves as liberal or conservative. it was people across the age and political spectrum who seemed to be affected by loneliness. if you want to get a sense of how broadly this impa

of the questions i have, and it comes back to something dr. murthy was alluding to, cosmetic things that touch something versus things to become deep and meaningful. how you make a miami dolphins day of delivery and service into something that is not transitory and ultimately shallow and ineffective. and how does your other initiative -- >> connect to effect.org. >> share with us how to make that a deep thing to move the needle. that i go to all of you. >> i will start with miami dolphins. i didn't know much about football. he began working with the miami dolphins because no surprise, there is a growing aging population in south florida, highly multicultural and income diverse. and the dolphins use their fan base as community volunteers. they engage them multiple times throughout the year. we have been doing is raising the issue of intergenerational connection and the importance of reaching out to vulnerable older adults with a variety of activities over time. as a relates to connect to effect this is a platform and it's a manifestation to end