Half of British people are seeing friends and leaving home less since the pandemic – new study

By Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London

Two years on from the first pandemic lockdown in the UK, a new study by King’s College London and Ipsos MORI shows just how damaging COVID and the measures to control it have been.

In a representative sample of just over 1,200 people, a third of people say they’re lonelier and sleeping less well than before the pandemic. Nearly half are seeing friends less and leaving home less – and half are spending more time on screens. It’s no surprise, then, that a third of people feel…

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