Funding for the arts is generally placed low on society’s list of priorities during economically challenging times. The coronavirus pandemic has significantly impacted the arts more broadly with the temporary closing of galleries, museums and performing arts venues across the country.
However, long-standing Percent for Art programs, which place fees usually a percentage of the development cost on commercial new-build projects to fund public art, have bolstered the resiliency of art in commercial real estate. This, coupled with some CRE players viewing art as a means to achieve greater return on investment for developments, has kept art in the public sphere alive.
How concerned should the U.S. be over homegrown variants?
Vaccine makers are already planning boosters to attack new versions of the coronavirus, while researchers work to figure out how dangerous they really are.
BySarah Elizabeth Richards
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Dramatic spikes in COVID-19 infection rates over the past year are most often linked to people ditching their masks or gathering in large groups. But infectious disease specialists are increasingly convinced there was another factor at play: The coronavirus itself was changing and becoming easier to spread.
A growing body of genetic sequencing evidence reveals that the currently circulating strains look biologically different than the ones seen at the beginning of the pandemic. While many of the changes to the virus are perfectly benign, some strains seem to be more contagious, and some are better able to evade antibodies, a key part of the body’s defense system.
Outside. He’s the author of
On the Burning Edge and lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico, with his wife, Turin, and their two kids.
To understand how a recovering hacker from Central America bootstrapped a COVID-19 treatment, it’s best to start back in January 2020, when Glanville elbowed his way into an Arlington, Virginia, conference crowded with immunologists and virus hunters, who were starting to look worried. On stage, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the now famous director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was telling the room about a spooky new coronavirus preparing to
migrate from Wuhan, China, and hopscotch around the globe. This was the moment Glanville had been preparing for his entire life. He met it with eagerness and energy. Before Fauci had finished speaking, Glanville knew he would enter the race to discover a treatment for whatever this disease turned out to be.
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