McDonald’s restaurant workers will not be required to get vaccinated, though the corporation is giving those employees four hours of paid time off to get the shot. Employees at corporate offices will all be required to wear masks, even after they are vaccinated. The company also pushed back its in-office return date from September 7 to October 11. On August 11, it announced that all corporate employees must get vaccinated.Īccording to the Wall Street Journal, McDonald’s corporate employees will have until September 27 to get the COVID-19 vaccine. There have been calls to expand the vaccination requirement beyond Zone A.As COVID-19 continues to pose a danger to public health, McDonald’s became the latest national company to implement vaccine requirements. The vaccine mandate is the strongest measure Netflix could enforce under the current return-to-work protocols. While vaccination is not a silver bullet - there have been breakthrough infections for fully vaccinated people - it is considered a crucial safeguard alongside existing safety protocols including regular testing, PPE and social distancing. fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant, which brought COVID safety on set back to the spotlight. Netflix’s decision comes amid a fourth COVID wave in the U.S.
It just baffles me how we would film it under COVID rules unless there was a vaccine beforehand.” There are so many extras and so many crew members, and it’s a very intimate show. It’s an issue that Phoebe Dynevor, who stars as Daphne Bridgerton on the mega-hit series, saw coming way back in January when she told Deadline: “I can’t imagine how it would be possible to film under these circumstances. On July 17, Deadline reported that season 2 of semi-porny Bridgerton had to put a pause on production-just one day after resuming production on the already-shut-down show. The Witcher, Grace and Frankie, and the upcoming musical rendition of Matilda are just some of the Netflix productions that have had their schedules impacted by the pandemic.
Sean Penn, star of the aforementioned Gaslit, isn’t keen to resume production until everyone on the set has been vaccinated, which he’s offered to personally organize.īut it makes sense that Netflix would be the first studio to take these kinds of precautionary measures. The mandate comes just weeks after the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and some of the industry’s biggest guilds agreed to “implement mandatory vaccination policies for casts and crew in Zone A on a production-by-production basis.” While it’s a step in the right direction, the case-by-case approach is not enough for some people. Netflix is making it standard across the board in the U.S.”
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As Deadline reports, “Some productions, like the Starz/UCP series Gaslit, have adopted the mandatory vaccination policy. Few companies seem to understand this better than Netflix, which has become the first studio to require that all its actors, as well as “Zone A” crew members who have reason to be in direct and close contact with those actors, be vaccinated.
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And while Hollywood is understandably anxious to get back to show business as usual, the logistics of film and TV production have made that difficult. We may be more than a year out from the beginning of the COVID pandemic, but the new Delta variant - not to mention rampant vaccination misinformation - has caused the number of coronavirus cases in the U.S.
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