Hi Dr. Gupta, my name is Brittany. I'm a 28 year old single woman who lives alone and

who's like incredibly extroverted. Dating during a pandemic has been interesting and

you know quite awkward honestly so I guess my takeaway is just you know check

on your single friends. We're not okay. My name is Zappora. I'm a sophomore on

Yale's campus and my girlfriend is also a sophomore. So we were in the same

circles and I kind of always admired her from afar and I would say that it

wasn't really until the pandemic that you know I got a chance to talk to her. It's

hard to say that you've gotten something out of the pandemic but I do I feel like

every day of every day of quarantine with her gets more magical. I wanted to

start off the podcast today with an important reminder. Valentine's Day is

this weekend in case you forgot. This is a day when many of us celebrate the

love in our lives. So I thought it might be a good opportunity to take a look at

the ways the pandemic has affected relationships for nearly a year. Both the

good and the bad. Today you're gonna hear from someone who has spent about 50

years studying love and how it impacts one of my favorite organs in the body. The

brain. She's gonna share what she's learned about how singles and couples are

staying connected these days and why she's confident that love always wins

even in the middle of a pandemic. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta seeing Ann's chief medical

correspondent and this is coronavirus fact versus fiction. Many of us have spent

the better part of a year now masking up self-isolating being on Zoom calls.

Not really the recipe for romance if you know what I mean. That said some dating

apps claim they are actually seeing an increase in traffic. Some even say the

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