Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors chair Kathryn Barger on Wednesday delivered “sobering” statistics that reveal how devastating the COVID-19 pandemic has been on entertainment industry professionals. "Many of" Hollywood's 890,000 film and entertainment employees are not working due to widespread shutdowns aimed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, a figure she attributed to Universal's Donna Langley as revealed Tuesday during the second meeting of the Economic Resiliency Task Force.
That group, led by Barger, was created out of a partnership with vice chair Supervisor Hilda Solis, and their peers on the Board of Supervisors, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Sheila Kuehl and Janice Hahn. "Anyone listening to yesterday’s meeting heard loud.