Hollywood Productions Urged To Pause Amid COVID Surge
Hollywood sign atop Mount Lee, in Hollywood Hills area of Santa Monica Mountains. Sign’s letters are 45′ tall. Seen from rooftop WET Deck at W Hollywood Hotel & Resort, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Producers Guild of America, the Joint Policy Committee, and SAG-AFTRA have made a recommendation to stop all in-person productions in Southern California temporarily due to the surge in COVID cases.
The national executive director of SAG-AFTRA released a statement saying that aside from the risk of COVID, there are still safety risks involved and since there are few, if any, hospital beds available, it could be extremely hard for anyone who gets injured on set receive treatment.
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