Entertainment Industry Accounts For 20% Of Recorded Covid Workplace Outbreaks in Los Angeles County

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In a weekly briefing on Los Angeles County’s Covid status, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer singled out the entertainment industry as the sector that has seen the most recorded outbreaks of late.“The entertainment industry is overrepresented in our reports of recent worksite clusters, with 18 clusters over the last three weeks, eight of which were reported between the 13th and April 19th, and that represented 20% of all reports of worksites for that week,” announced Ferrer.

But she also noted that if the entertainment industry number skews higher than those of other sectors, it may be because film and TV productions are doing something right, not something wrong.“This may be due to a general increase in cases as we’ve seen in the community as well as the comprehensive screening protocols that this industry maintains,” noted Ferrer.The county’s dashboard of “active outbreaks in non-residential settings,” which excludes healthcare, attributes 50% of the current outbreaks to entertainment entities.

But while the county updates its list daily, it can take weeks after an outbreak has been resolved for it to be removed from the dashboard.Currently listed entertainment-related workplace outbreak locations and infection numbers of are below.Fox Studios Lot – Stage 19: 10 infectionsLionsgate Entertainment: 6 infectionsSony Pictures Animation/Imageworks: 3 infectionsSony Pictures Studios – BYM: 7 infectionsSony Pictures Studios – THL: 5 infectionsVerve Talent & Literary Agency: 3 infectionsThe other top sectors that reported worksite clusters this past 3 weeks, according to Ferrer, are grocery stores with 14 clusters, manufacturing with 8 clusters and retail trade with 7 clusters.L.A.’s daily cases counts have risen by nearly