NPR: Music Therapists Are Trying To Help COVID-19 Patients Who Experience Loneliness


February 8, 2021

A music therapist in Virginia started a weekly support group for COVID-19 patients to help them deal with social isolation and loneliness.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

Can you sing your way through social isolation and loneliness? A music therapist in Virginia started a support group for people with COVID-19. As NPR’s Elizabeth Blair reports, they connect with each other through song.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

TOM SWEITZER: We’re going to use music to do some breathing. Take a big breath in.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

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