Time for Action on America’s Sleep Crisis
3 min readMay 7, 2019
By David Beier & Andrew Sullivan
Sleep deprivation is killing us.
More than one third of American adults report they get fewer than the 7 hours of sleep the Centers for Disease Control calls for. This qualifies sleep deprivation as a public health epidemic, according to CDC, citing its impact on obesity, depression, diabetes, heart disease, reduced immunity and maybe…