Even as daily Covid case numbers fall in Los Angeles, there has been a rash of infections at one of the city’s glitziest addresses: 321 Hampton Dr in Venice. That’s the location of Google’s Silicon Beach campus.
03.08.2022 - 05:19 / deadline.com
UPDATED: While daily Covid cases across L.A. County have plummeted by 50% in the past week, the outbreak at Warner Bros. has continued to grow, according to the Public Health Department’s dashboard.
What started out as an outbreak of 31 cases on July 11 has, in the past three weeks, more than doubled to 67 infections on the massive Burbank lot. It’s by far the biggest showbiz outbreak of the pandemic that we’re aware of, and we’ve been watching the numbers fairly closely.
The first cases were officially recorded on the lot July 11. There were 31 of them. Two days later, the number had grown to 43. About a week later, the number of infections at the studio was 53. Now, after about 10 more days, the number is 67.
There could be a lag time between infections, the reporting thereof and when the county dashboard finally reflects the reporting, but it is updated daily and the count for the lot was still 53 last week.
The studio has seen smaller outbreaks, mostly in the range of 3-5 cases. In May its Bldg 128 had a cluster of 5 cases while Stages 27 and 29 also saw 5 cases.
Deadline reached out to Warner Bros. again today and will add any comment we receive.
For perspective, the next-highest Industry-related outbreak we’re aware of took place at Lionsgate, also in May, when the studio saw 21 infections. More than half of those were among employees returning from CinemaCon in Las Vegas. Warners did have a fairly sizable footprint at Comic-Con about 10 days ago, but tying that sojourn to the increase in cases would be pure speculation.
Also on the workplace outbreaks list this week are 24 cases attributed to Sony Pictures Studios, 11 infections at L.A. Center Studios, 26 at the Cinemark in Lancaster and a whopping 46 people sick at
Even as daily Covid case numbers fall in Los Angeles, there has been a rash of infections at one of the city’s glitziest addresses: 321 Hampton Dr in Venice. That’s the location of Google’s Silicon Beach campus.
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