Warner Bros. His studio in Los Angeles County, California, reported an increase in 43 coronavirus cases Tuesday despite Hollywood returning to strict virus protocols.
Burbank Film Studio reported the highest employee infection rate of any facility in Los Angeles. packer reported. But other businesses have also reported increases in cases, including Dodger Stadium, the Smithfield Foods meatpacking facility in Vernon, Raytheon Technologies in El Segundo, and Los Angeles and Burbank airports.
Los Angeles County officials said they would implement nationwide masking policies if the infection rate continued to rise.
“While we saw nothing near the devastation we saw in the Omicron surge last winter, we are seeing more cases than we saw at the peak of the Delta surge,” said the Director of Public Health. County and Barbara. . said Ferrer.
But while most of the country has yet to implement stricter COVID protocols, the Hollywood film industry has reverted to full masking and other strict prevention procedures.
In early July, the film industry returned to strict virus-fighting practices after Los Angeles officials reported more than 8 cases of COVID-19 a week were reported in the region. The masking policy is almost two weeks old.
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Industry agreement with their union states that movies and television shows must revert to wearing masks if eight or more of every 100,000 Los Angeles County residents are hospitalized for COVID.
Los Angeles officials said the hospital rate rose to 8.1 in early July.
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Source: Breitbart
