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Your commitment to raising the bar is something to look up too.

When the world said this mobile contract's price is high enough,

you said,

No, go higher.

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One that would rather raise your data, not your prices.

Go to gift gaff. Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. I'm Naila Boodoo. It's the last day of

July and we're five months into this pandemic. We hear about the number of COVID

patients, but what about the trauma of those who do survive?

We worry if there are enough frontline health care workers.

But how are they dealing with caring for patients hospitalized without families.

And we know all about social distancing, but what about the impact of being alone?

So today we're doing a deep dive to get you smarter about the emotional aspects of this pandemic, we're not talking enough about.

The stigma of loneliness has dropped with the pandemic because everyone all of a sudden

understands what it feels like since a lot of people are self-islated.

Eileen O'Reilly writes for our science newsletter at Axios.

She's been reporting on the mental health side of this pandemic,

especially when it comes to COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized.

That's where we're starting today,

with the people who are closest to the pandemic.

For those who survive the loneliness of weathering the disease by yourself in a hospital where

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