For many TV series, the start of the holiday production hiatus in mid-December coincided with the beginning of the latest Covid surge, fueled by the highly contagious Omicron variant. A handful of …
, stopped filming a few days earlier as a result of positive tests in the central Zone A, which includes the cast and those in direct interaction with them.Now, as many series are slated to return to production this week, studios face an unprecedented wave of infections, which is sweeping the country, with New York and Los Angeles, the main production hubs in the U.S., among the worst hit, setting new all-time records every day.
Additional safety precautions and tightening testing protocols in the different zones on set are being considered as breakthrough Covid cases involving fully vaccinated people are skyrocketing. But unlike last January when the general population didn’t have access to vaccines yet, now vaccines — including boosters — are readily available, which likely is factoring into studios’ rational for trying to proceed with production as planned.
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