The rich and famous in Hollywood are going crazy to get the COVID-19 vaccine – offering up to $ 10,000 for shooting and posing as health workers in a live scene from a Suzanne Collins book, according to a new report.
“It’s like the ‘Hunger Games’ there,” a top entertainment director told Variety about Tinseltown’s fight to immunize itself in California – now the epicenter of the global health crisis.
Dr. Robert Huizenga told the magazine that those with deep pockets offered up to $ 10,000 in desperation to get a shot – while others resorted to more extreme measures.
“We were offered a bribe,” the Beverly Hills document told Variety. “We see people carrying planes to every location. I have seen people trying to enter the medical profession or asylum staff temporarily to qualify for an early vaccine. ”
Huizenga said notable members of the entertainment industry treat nabbing a coveted vaccine as a “fight for their lives” amid slow launches across the nation.
“You can’t blame them for stopping all the stops,” he said. “The state and the government have created a system that is really horrible.”
Other older entertainment elders gathered in Florida to receive doses, including Allen Shapiro, 73-year-old CEO Dick Clark Productions, and former Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, 72. for years, Variety said.
Some also traveled to Maui to get the job.
Golden State has administered more than 2.4 doses of COVID-19 vaccine – a rate of 6,192 photos per 100,000 people, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 387,500 people have been completely immunized so far.
But like many other states, California – which has nearly 40 million residents – is on the verge of running out of vaccines after the rocky launch.
Cali recently switched to an age-based eligibility system, after first administering front-line workers, health workers, teachers and those aged 65 and over.
Meanwhile, infections have risen in the state, with 25,747 new cases and 422 new deaths on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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