Westword: And the eight months since March — when an ever-shifting series of COVID-19 restrictions began — have already been torturous. Michael Seman, a researcher with Colorado State University, co-authored two devastating studies this summer, one looking at COVID-19’s impact on the state’s creative economy and the other on how the pandemic has hit Denver’s live-music industry. He sums up COVID-19’s effect on the cultural sector as “total carnage.”

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