Ill-prepared assistants are being given COVID safety responsibilities on TV sets
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"Lack of resources and adequate training, conflicting messages from executives, and no industry standards have pushed some of the people in charge of keeping Hollywood’s sets safe during a raging pandemic to the breaking point," reports Buzzfeed News' Krystie Lee Yandoli. "Others have had to make up the rules as they go just to keep the train from going off the track." As one COVID compliance assistant who works on an Amazon show tells her: “I have no formal training. I have no medical training. I don't know anything more or less about coronavirus than the next person...Everybody who’s working on the production wants to get back to work and wants to be there, but there's a lot of hoops to jump through and a lot of red tape, and sometimes people are adhering to those things and at other points they’re just totally ignored. Just because you make more money than me doesn’t mean you’re less susceptible to this virus. The coronavirus doesn’t take into account money or status or career.”
TOPICS: Coronavirus
