CTI Safer Set

07/15/2022

Welcome to LA... grrr... and some productions (mostly non-union) are easing testing and not mandating mask wearing despite protocols for on-the-set safety. We refuse to work for those producers.

One day after it was revealed that a new highly-mutated Omicron subvariant had arrived in California, Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced the first case had been unidentified in Los Angeles. BA.2.75 has a large number of mutations when compared to its sister Omicron lineages....

07/10/2022

Mask up, people! It's going to be a bumpy ride!

Greater transmissibility means greater transmissibility in any setting, indoors or outdoors—even if outdoors is still safer.

07/08/2022

The worst one of all, so far...

Two cases of the new BA.2.75 Omicron subvariant have been found in the U.S., the CDC told Fortune on Thursday. It has at least seven additional mutations beyond the usual Omicron changes.

06/01/2022

Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 is now the leading variant in the US closely followed by omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 which are said to be more transmissible and more likely to be the cause of breakthrough infections regardless of previous infection or vaccination/booster.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/battle-omicron-being-won-ba-035043781.html

05/29/2022

For Week Ending 5/28 in LA County, there were 132,830 new infections reported, a 3.34% increase from the previous week. The new strain of the omicron subvariant is more virulent and contagious than its predecessors. Nationally, cases are FIVE times higher than this time last year. All of this and some productions are working without a mask requirement. We will not work on those productions. The link for LA numbers is in the comments.

For the third year, Americans are greeting the unofficial start of summer shadowed by the specter of the coronavirus amid rising covid-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country. The United States is recording more than 100,000 infections a day - at least five times higher than this point last...

01/12/2022

Working on a sound stage today and tomorrow. Keeping things as safe as possible.

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01/06/2022

Some of the latest information on omicron.

After nearly two months of lab studies and real-world observations, experts have a much clearer picture of what Omicron is — and isn’t — capable of.

12/31/2021

People of Los Angeles… it’s getting bad out there.

“COVID-19 Daily Update: December 30, 2021 New Cases: 20,198 (1,669,545 to date) New Deaths: 24 (27,625 to date) Current Hospitalizations: 1,251”

12/21/2021

Stay safe out there!

Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in omicron's share....

12/03/2021

It’s here, Los Angeles.



https://apple.news/AoSr8iV_HQWeCOM8SM43lIQ

11/26/2021

A new COVID-19 variant, omicron, is now a variant of interest. Please stay vigilant.

From the story:

"From just over 200 new confirmed cases per day in recent weeks, South Africa saw the number of new daily cases rocket to 2,465 on Thursday. Struggling to explain the sudden rise in cases, scientists studied virus samples from the outbreak and discovered the new variant.

WHY ARE SCIENTISTS WORRIED ABOUT THIS NEW VARIANT?

It appears to have a high number of mutations — about 30 — in the coronavirus’ spike protein, which could affect how easily it spreads to people."

WHAT IS THIS NEW COVID-19 VARIANT IN SOUTH AFRICA? It's unclear where the new variant actually arose, but it was first detected by scientists in South Africa and has now been seen in travelers to Belgium, Botswana, Hong Kong and Israel. Health Minister Joe Phaahla said the variant was linked to an ....