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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said Tuesday that New York urgently needs to revitalize its arts and entertainment industries to recover from the coronavirus pandemic in the short term and get more unemployed artists back to work.

“We need to bring art and culture back to life,” said Cuomo as he continued a week-long series of political talks setting out his agenda for the state.

The governor said bringing back the arts and culture was vital – not just to help artists who have suffered from the country’s worst unemployment, but to make New York City an important and exciting hub in which to live people want to live and work.

“Cities are, by definition, centers of energy, entertainment, theater and cuisine,” Cuomo said, highlighting the threats the city is facing from the increase in remote working, crime and homelessness. “Without this activity and attraction, cities lose a lot of their attractiveness. What is a city without social, cultural and creative synergies? New York City is not New York without Broadway. “

Mr Cuomo said the state would form a public-private partnership to offer a series of nationwide pop-up concerts with artists including Amy Schumer, Chris Rock, Renée Fleming and Hugh Jackman; launch a pilot program to investigate how socially distant performances can be safely held in flexible locations with undefined seating; and work with the Mellon Foundation to distribute scholarships that can help more than 1,000 artists get back to work and raise money for art groups in the community.

The governor said the state couldn’t wait until the summer when more people would be vaccinated to bring the performances back.

The public-private partnership New York Arts Revival, which will feature pop-up performances with more than 150 artists starting February 4th, is led by producers Scott Rudin and Jane Rosenthal, along with the New York State Council on the Arts. The plan will culminate with the opening of Little Island, the park-like pier built by Barry Diller on the downtown Hudson River, and the Tribeca Film Festival, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in June.

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If I live in the US, when can I get the vaccine?

While the exact order of vaccine recipients may vary from state to state, most doctors and residents of long-term care facilities will come first. If you want to understand how this decision is made, this article will help.

When can I get back to normal life after the vaccination?

Life will only get back to normal once society as a whole receives adequate protection against the coronavirus. Once countries have approved a vaccine, they can only vaccinate a few percent of their citizens in the first few months. The unvaccinated majority remain susceptible to infection. A growing number of coronavirus vaccines show robust protection against disease. However, it is also possible that people spread the virus without knowing they are infected because they have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. Scientists don’t yet know whether the vaccines will also block the transmission of the coronavirus. Even vaccinated people have to wear masks for the time being, avoid the crowds indoors and so on. Once enough people are vaccinated, it becomes very difficult for the coronavirus to find people at risk to become infected. Depending on how quickly we as a society achieve this goal, life could approach a normal state in autumn 2021.

Do I still have to wear a mask after the vaccination?

Yeah, but not forever. The two vaccines that may be approved this month clearly protect people from contracting Covid-19. However, the clinical trials that produced these results were not designed to determine whether vaccinated people could still spread the coronavirus without developing symptoms. That remains a possibility. We know that people who are naturally infected with the coronavirus can spread it without experiencing a cough or other symptoms. Researchers will study this question intensively when the vaccines are introduced. In the meantime, self-vaccinated people need to think of themselves as potential spreaders.

Will it hurt What are the side effects?

The vaccine against Pfizer and BioNTech, like other typical vaccines, is delivered as a shot in the arm. The injection is no different from the ones you received before. Tens of thousands of people have already received the vaccines, and none of them have reported serious health problems. However, some of them have experienced short-lived symptoms, including pain and flu-like symptoms that usually last a day. It is possible that people will have to plan to take a day off or go to school after the second shot. While these experiences are not pleasant, they are a good sign: they are the result of your own immune system’s encounter with the vaccine and a strong reaction that ensures lasting immunity.

Will mRNA vaccines change my genes?

No. Moderna and Pfizer vaccines use a genetic molecule to boost the immune system. This molecule, known as mRNA, is eventually destroyed by the body. The mRNA is packaged in an oily bubble that can fuse with a cell, allowing the molecule to slide inside. The cell uses the mRNA to make proteins from the coronavirus that can stimulate the immune system. At any given moment, each of our cells can contain hundreds of thousands of mRNA molecules that they produce to make their own proteins. As soon as these proteins are made, our cells use special enzymes to break down the mRNA. The mRNA molecules that our cells make can only survive a few minutes. The mRNA in vaccines is engineered to withstand the cell’s enzymes a little longer, so the cells can make extra viral proteins and trigger a stronger immune response. However, the mRNA can hold for a few days at most before it is destroyed.

Mr Cuomo said he hopes to expand rapid testing, including at pop-up locations, to make it easier for people to get tested before visiting restaurants or theaters in areas with sufficiently low virus rates. He pointed to the state’s experiment at the Buffalo Bills game last Saturday when the state tested nearly 7,000 fans.

There were problems with rapid tests. While rapid test devices are portable and can provide results quickly, many are not considered to be as reliable as other tests on people with no symptoms. The White House had relied on quick tests to protect President Trump and his inner circle by asking all White House visitors to take the test, even though that was not the way the test was supposed to be used.

New York reported at least 196 new coronavirus deaths and 14,179 new cases on Monday, and the rate of positive tests continues to rise.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the foremost infectious disease expert in the United States, told performing arts professionals at a virtual conference Saturday that he believed theaters could reopen this fall with relatively few restrictions if the vaccination program were successful, despite it the audience suggested you may need to wear masks for some time.

“When we get to early to mid-fall, people can feel safe on stage, as can people in the audience,” said Dr. Fauci.

However, the distribution of vaccines in the US is behind schedule, and public health officials have made efforts to deliver the vaccine to hospital workers and at-risk older Americans.

Mr Cuomo said New York could not wait until enough people were vaccinated to achieve herd immunity before steps were taken to revitalize the performing arts scene.

“We’re seeing downtime for months,” he said. “We have to start acting now. We cannot float and let pain, hardship and inequality grow around us. “