Lights, Camera, COVID-19 Safety: How the Virus Has Changed Hollywood

Lights, Camera, COVID-19 Safety: How the Virus Has Changed Hollywood
Cameramen Aaron Wise (L) and Rigel “Che” Yaluk(2L) with film actor Amy Motta (R) during production of the indie feature film, “The Star City Murders” on July 1, 2021, in Los Angeles, Calif. Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images
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At the onset of COVID-19, the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, all Hollywood productions shut down overnight in March 2020. By mid-summer of that year, a handful of productions ramped up again, emerging with a brand-new production budget line item: COVID-19 safety.

Nick Greco was one of the first COVID-19 safety monitors to be trained and hired in July 2020. Greco has been an actor in Los Angeles since 2005, taking crew jobs in production and post-production on network and cable TV shows to pay the bills along the way.

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