Grey’s Anatomy is able to add the present real-life public well being disaster to the prolonged listing of disasters confronted by the surgeons of Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital. Government producer Krista Vernoff has revealed that the ABC drama is planning to deal with the coronavirus pandemic when it returns for Season 17.
Vernoff seems in a brand new Emmys panel known as “Quaranstreaming: Consolation TV That Retains Us Going,” which premieres in full on YouTube and Emmys.com on Tuesday night time at 8/7c. As first reported by Entertainment Weekly, Vernoff confirmed on the panel that the present plans to include COVID-19 into the storyline of its subsequent season.
“We’ll tackle this pandemic for positive,” Vernoff defined. “There is not any option to be a long-running medical present and never do the medical story of our lifetimes.”
Vernoff additionally revealed that after listening to from real-life docs in regards to the ongoing coronavirus disaster, she started to see similarities between what they’re grappling with in the true world and what the character of Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd), a trauma surgeon and warfare veteran, has been educated for on the present.
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“Yearly, now we have docs come and inform us their tales, and often they’re telling their funniest or craziest tales. This yr, it has felt extra like remedy,” Vernoff stated. She famous that the docs discuss in regards to the pandemic “as warfare — a warfare that they weren’t educated for. And that is been one in all our huge conversations about Owen, is that he is really educated for this in a method that many of the different docs aren’t.” Vernoff added that she feels Gray’s Anatomy has “a possibility and a duty to inform a few of these tales.”
A premiere date for Gray’s Anatomy Season 17 has not but been set. Gray’s Anatomy Seasons 1-16 are at present out there to stream on Netflix.
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