Healing Power of Music

Music helps everyone, even the intubated ICU patients, regulating their breaths, reducing their sedative intakes, saving the hospital over $2,300 per patients on average. But during this pandemic, many music therapists were furloughed or fired. The piece then gives some examples to be followed from California Arts Council and the City of San Francisco. These are funding proposals for community engagements and public health campaigns especially for communities hardest hit by the pandemic.