Hollywood and hygiene: Sanitary conditions in the age of coronavirus

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Current circumstances have forced many to consider whether there must be a choice between budgets and well-being. “It’s expensive to clean every stand, sandbag and lens and that all takes time,” said the Santa Monica-based Karman. “The way we work, I get overtime after eight hours and double-time after 12. We work 12 to 14 hours a day.
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Doctors Explain How Long You Can Expect to Experience Symptoms of COVID-19

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"Many cases come and go without any symptoms, so no recovery is needed," David Cutler, MD, a family medicine physician at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, CA, told POPSUGAR. However, you could still be contagious — so, if you believe you've been exposed to COVID-19, you should quarantine for at least 14 days. "If your ...
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‘Night of the Comet’ is a feel-good dystopian movie set in LA

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But it also offers one element every LA denizen can relate to in this period of stay-at-home orders: Empty city streets, stretching from Santa Monica to San Dimas to Lancaster to Lakewood. In Comet, the urban desolation springs from an entirely different type of cataclysm: The eponymous cosmic snowball, which, upon entering our atmosphere ...
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L.A. Extends ‘Safer at Home’ Order, Closure of All Non-essential Business

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The county has 10 million residents and includes the city of L.A., as well as major cities like Long Beach, Pasadena and Santa Monica. Ferrer also described new requirements for all essential businesses that remain open, mainly grocery stores but also those businesses that have been found to provide essential services. Starting April 15 at ...
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This Is What a Shelter-at-Home Order Looks Like When Your Home Is a Van

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Full-time RVers and van-lifers, for whom social distancing is a way of life, race to find a safe spot to hunker down. On a Wednesday in mid-March, Mark Koep left Mesa, Arizona after breakfast, aiming to make it to Santa Monica in time for a dinner meeting. By the time he hit the Los Angeles suburbs, he knew something was very wrong.
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LA, Other Cities to Require Face Coverings at Essential Businesses Starting Friday

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Los Angeles, Burbank, Culver City and Santa Monica have adopted policies for employees and customers to wear face coverings at essential businesses, along with social distancing measures and guarantees for workers to have access to sanitizing resources. "We are acting in collaboration with cities throughout the county to flatten the curve and ...
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A Patient's Guide to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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OCD symptoms vary among individuals, says Mayra Mendez, a licensed psychotherapist and program coordinator for intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental health services at Providence Saint John’s Child and Family Development Center in Santa Monica, California. OCD is defined by two basic types of symptoms, Mendez says ...
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8 questions with Adriene Mishler from 'Yoga with Adriene' amid coronavirus

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She has done Warrior 2 under a Warhol. She’s led a class in a boxing gym, on the Santa Monica pier, at Terminal 5 in NYC (where Bob Dylan does concerts) and the Brooklyn Museum. Her biggest class was in Alexandra Palace (yes, a real palace) in London in front of an audience of 2,400 students. She worked hard not to have it feel like a concert ...
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