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At the end of October, European governments in Germany, Italy and France closed cinemas once again amid an increase in COVID-19 infection rates. In the United States, New York allowed the maximum number of theaters in the state to reopen from October. On October 23, but New York theaters remain closed. It’s a similar story in Los Angeles, where an increase in the average number of new daily coronavirus cases makes it unlikely that theaters in Los Angeles County will soon be able to reopen according to California’s protection. Guidelines.
Film dealers and operators, hit by the first closure of COVID-19 in early March, were hopeful that the worst would have already happened. restrictions on theatre capacity in maximum locations. Warner Bros. , see you next year AND in Japan, the Animation Demon Slayer the Movie broke the records of the first weekend from October 16 to 18 in the direction of a $102 million transport in the country.
Now everyone is in a position to spend a winter without blood. Governments say cinemas need to be closed and closed again to stop the spread of coronavirus. hot spots are possible for COVID-19.
But the long-term cinema may not be entirely bleak. Early studies on how the new coronavirus spreads and the threat of infection indoors suggest that not all indoor entertainment is created equal. “I think we can take into consideration going when compared to other indoor activities, the cinema is quite safe,” says Hendrik Streeck, professor of virology and director of the Research Institute for Virology and HIV at the University of Bonn in Germany. ” There has not been, to my knowledge, a bachelor has an effect on where a movie theater has been the site of a mass market event. “
In particular, countries where cinemas did not close the pandemic, coupled with South Korea and Japan, which have resorted to some social distance, have not noticed reports of such occasions in a cinema. Nor have there been any in countries like Britain, France. or the United States, where cinemas were closed first and allowed to reopen.
However, the fact that no one has hinted at the occurrence of a COVID-19 infection in a movie theater does not mean that it has never occurred. Or it couldn’t have happened. On 28 October, when Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced new blocking measures for Germany, which affected all public entertainment venues and added cinemas, she said they were mandatory because in “75% of cases” Array was more unlikely where a user had been infected. Germany’s track and track formula is among the most productive in the world, and the country has a government-backed hintr touch app, but still has a 1 in four chance of figuring out where a massive market occasion took place.
Scientists may point to several very likely points of why cinemas might be a less complicated COVID-19 environment. People are more likely to inflate with droplets that cough or sneeze through someone nearby. essential to reduce transmission, but the habit also matters. Talking expels the droplets. Speak aloud, compose a song or shout even more. “You have no tendency to scream, sing or communicate aloud in a movie theater,” Streeck says. “The most common thing is that you look forward in silence. propagate. “
Ventilation is also important. An examination conducted through the Hermann Rietschel Institute in Berlin, on behalf of the local HDF exhibitor organization, found that even if viewers were not dressed in masks, the amount of aerosol (the concentration of those infectious droplets) they inhaled would be “only 0. 3%” of what they would aspire to if they worked in an office. “Cinemas are giant giant spaces, and they have very intelligent ventilation systems, which greatly reduces the concentration of aerosols,” says Anne Hartmann, a HRI study associate who led the exam.
However, cinemas are unlikely to be exempt from new closing orders. “We know you can’t be 100 percent sure there’s no threat of transmission,” says David F. Goldsmith of the Milken Institute School of Public Health in George. Washington University. But Goldsmith, who is CinemaSafe’s medical advisor, the COVID-19 protection rules evolved through the National Association of Theater Owners, says that going to the movies is “as safe” as going to a “grocery store” if viewers “wear masks, separate at least 1. 80 meters and use hand sanitizers. “
This story was published in the November 2 factor of The Hollywood Reporter. Click here to subscribe.
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