Michael Maloney “General Hospital” counts both a Lassa fever epidemic and a water pathogen story among its most successful medical-themed sagas.
However, although COVID19 would have undoubtedly provided ample material for ABC’s daytime drama, it chose not to incorporate it into its storyline.In fact, while all four daytime dramas that aired on broadcast television during the pandemic (NBC’s “Days of our Lives” and CBS’ “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “The Young and the Restless”) worked under new health and safety guidelines to produce the shows during the past year, none of them brought the behind-the-scenes mask-wearing in front of the camera.“We wanted viewers to be able to jump into a world that was unencumbered from the fear we all.
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