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cord-264300-6qp0ymi2	Sutin, Angelina R.	Has loneliness increased during COVID-19? Comment on “Loneliness: A signature mental health concern in the era of COVID-19”	2020-07-13		.txt	text/plain	1036	62	62	Comment on "Loneliness: A signature mental health concern in the era of COVID-19" Angelina R. Sutin*, Martina Luchetti, and We read the recent Letter to the Editor by Killgore and colleagues (2020) in Psychiatry Research on loneliness during COVID-19 and found it to be a timely issue of broad interest. A second study that compared the prevalence of loneliness from 2018 to April 2020 in two national samples came to a similar conclusion: There was not a large increase in loneliness during the stay-at-home orders caused by the pandemic (McGinty et al., 2020) . In this letter, we compare the loneliness data of Killgore and colleagues to a more recent, nationally representative sample to re-evaluate their conclusion. Bruce and colleagues reported mean loneliness by age group that allows for more direct comparisons with the sample surveyed during the pandemic than the comparison group used by Killgore and colleagues.	./cache/cord-264300-6qp0ymi2.txt	./txt/cord-264300-6qp0ymi2.txt