Time for Action on America’s Sleep Crisis

David Beier
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…

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David Beier

Managing Director, Bay City Capital, San Francisco, CA. Previously Chief Domestic Policy to Vice President Al Gore. Senior corporate officer DNA and Amgen