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284 - COVID-19 and the Arts Part 1: What Has Been Lost and What We Can Regain
Public Health On Call
English - March 29, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 34.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 571 ratingsNews Health & Fitness Medicine covid19 globalhealth coronavirus covid education health medicine novelcoronavirus publichealth science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Research suggests that the arts—a sprawling industry of museums, theaters, studios, production companies, artists, administrators and more—have lost over $15 billion in the COVID-19 pandemic. But the losses go beyond financial to the existential: who are we without the arts? Kate Levin, who oversees the Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts program, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how the losses of these experiences impact everything from people’s mental health, to neighborhood and community cohesion, to social services. They also talk about signs of hope for the future including support of the arts in the most recent disaster relief bill.