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How to Stop Scrolling Coronavirus News for Like 5 Minutes
The coronavirus pandemic can lead to an obsession with checking our phones. Here’s how to change your news habit.
Kara Cutruzzula
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4 min read·
Mar 17, 2020
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Photo: Jose Luis Palaez/Getty ImagesWe try to make sense of the biggest news event of our lifetime, it feels natural, even calming, to turn to one of our most trusted habits: the flick, scroll, click. It’s been…
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Written by Kara Cutruzzula
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Author of DO IT TODAY and DO IT FOR YOURSELF, two motivational journals. My newsletter encourages you every morning: https://bit.ly/3vpPlV3
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