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When COVID-19 vaccine was rolled out by Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) in the United States, everybody, including the top brass of scientists, was hoping to defeat the deadly virus within a few months. However, the optimism did not last long as the contagion started mutating itself, generating new variants that rendered vaccines made for the original version of the virus largely ineffective.
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Even in a year of staying put, Iâve gone far and wide â and even learned to folk dance
Iâm taking full advantage of the virtual content that organizations have been offering during the pandemic. And it has gotten me through what would otherwise be a lonely time.
By Joanna Liss Globe correspondent,Updated April 1, 2021, 1:18 p.m.
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I have rarely ventured out of my house during the past year, save for intermittent grocery shopping trips and infrequent walks. I know I am among the lucky ones. But even those of us without serious health, family, or financial issues have been prone to loneliness, anxiety, and general concern about the state of the world.
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Celebrate Women s History Month by watching women-made films, painting famous female figures on medallions and learning about pivotal women in history.
Culture By Anna Boone Mar 1, 2021 12:05 AM
Mark your calendars with a slew of online events recognizing Women’s History Month.
As the pandemic continues, you can sign up for a virtual event for every day of March and learn about the female progress through the decades. From book talks to film discussions, here’s a rundown of ways you can celebrate Women’s History Month every day of March.
UpdatedWed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:26 am ET
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The New York Adventure Club is set to host a virtual journey through Inwood s history before industrialization. (Shutterstock / Susan Natoli)
INWOOD, NY Almost all of the small Dutch family farms and rural beauty that defined Inwood hundreds of years ago are gone, but the New York Adventure Club wants to virtually bring you back in time to see what the neighborhood used to look like. The Secrets of Inwood, Prehistoric NYC Neighborhood will take place Friday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m., and you can sign up for the virtual event for $10 here.
Don Rice, president of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance Board and local historian, will lead the virtual event.
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In 2020, virtual events took off. As societies around the world went into quarantine, and we couldn’t get together in person anymore, event creators and attendees found new ways to connect on Eventbrite. Even as in-person events have begun to return to our service, we’re finding that the success of virtual experiences has fundamentally changed the events landscape. Virtual events, our data suggests, aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
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Despite the dizzying changes to daily life that took hold in early 2020, both creators and consumers got on board with virtual events fairly quickly. Our data shows that by June 2020, attendees were spending 28x more time attending virtual events than they had been in January 2020. In November, that figure jumped to 34x more than in January. In total this year, nearly 75 million attendees registered fo