Long-running medical drama series, Grey’s Anatomy, has covered so many drastic scenarios including bombs, plane crashes, mass shootings, plague scares and even a ‘ghost sex’ tumour over the course of its 16-year run, and it’s now getting ready to add one more serious circumstance under its television belt: COVID-19.
The pandemic will play a major role in the narrative of season 17. Highlighting the challenges of COVID within hospitals and towards health care workers specifically, the show is committed to depicting “correct medicine” despite its famously dramatic nature.
With the symptoms of COVID not being completely understood yet in the real world, executive producer Zoanne Clack shares that the show will mimic the surprises of COVID in reality, for example, whether or not to use experimental drugs to treat patients and what those outcomes would be.
Some of the teased plotlines also come from personal accounts. A Grey’s writer, for instance, is related to an ER doctor who contracted COVID-19 but who only exhibited symptoms like pink eye, which inspired a lot of research.
