L.A. health official calls for a longer production pause
LA TimesCars line up as Angelenos try to get vaccinated in Inglewood. During Wednesday’s news conference, Ferrer thanked the industry for implementing COVID-19 safety protocols and said if studios had to film, they should avoid high risk situations, where people are not able to wear face coverings and are very close together. Hollywood Inc. COVID surge throws ‘essential’ Hollywood production plans up in the air Despite safety protocols, film producers and unions are still grappling with how and when to get back to work after a holiday pause. “Filming decisions are being made on a production-by-production basis, and all productions are following the strict COVID-19 health and safety protocols that were bargained by the unions and studios with input from experts and have resulted in one of the safest working environments in the country,” the MPA said in a statement. On Dec. 24, the L.A. County Department of Public Health asked the industry “to strongly consider pausing work for a few weeks during this catastrophic surge.” But the department stopped short of forcing productions to stop, leaving unions and studios to figure out how to proceed.
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