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With vaccines expected to arrive for all U.S. adults by the end of May, the entertainment industry may need to devise new guidelines for on-set and workplace safety as challenges loom.
If, a year ago, there had been a guarantee that by March 2021 there would be three COVID19 vaccines being administered to millions daily, Hollywood would have been overjoyed. When cinemas started closing stateside and film and TV studios told workers to stay home, few allowed themselves to think of this moment, much less plan for it. Take the action plan titled “The Safe Way Forward,” which was put together by most of the industry’s guilds and unveiled in June. It spells out diligent use of personal protective equipment, strictly enforced testing regimes and quarantines, but doesn’t address what happens when vaccines arrive on the scene.
Over 93 million people in the U.S. have received COVID-19 vaccinations, according to a data tracker from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That includes 32 million, or 9.7 percent of the nation’s population, who’ve been fully vaccinated.
More than 2 million Americans are being vaccinated each day. A new daily record was set Saturday, March 6, when about 2.9 million doses were administered, the White House announced Monday.
Young woman receiving a vaccine shot against a virus (Getty, Luis Alvarez)
As the supply of COVID immunizations becomes readily available for more segments of the general population, the focus turns to the complicated issue of vaccination mandates. Can your job, church, school, grocery store and other institutions in your daily life require you to get a shot?
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