Chasing Life
Chasing Life
CNN Podcasts
Uncomfortably Numb
16 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2020 at 8:00 am.
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Around the world, more than a million people have now died from the coronavirus. Rationally, we know this is devastating, but emotionally, why can we feel so removed from it? CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Associate Professor of Psychology Azim Shariff about the limits of human empathy, and what a computer game might teach us about our response to this pandemic.

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