The actress who portrays Dr. Meredith Grey on the hit medical series doesn't rule out the possibility of tackling the Covid-19 pandemic in a future episode.
- Apr 17, 2020
AceShowbiz - Ellen Pompeo has "thought about" the possibility of "Grey's Anatomy" tackling the coronavirus in an upcoming episode.
The medical drama, in which Ellen stars as Dr. Meredith Grey, is known for broaching timely subjects and social issues in its scripts, and has previously aired episodes centred around topics including same-sex marriage, immigration, cyber terrorism and mass shootings in America.
It remains to be seen whether or not the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed the lives of more than 138,000 people worldwide since it began last year 2019, will feature in one or more episodes of the show, but Ellen told Variety she hasn't ruled it out.
"I thought about it," she mused. "Obviously, we don't want to get too political here, but I was just watching the news and I saw a clip of Barack Obama in 2014, saying that a pandemic was inevitable and that we should be prepared for it. And then in 2014, the Republicans were not granting him the budget, the access to put together what he felt like he needed to keep the American people safe, is how he put it in his words. So, in 2014, Obama was very well aware that this was going to happen and very well aware that we needed to be more prepared than we were at that time for it."
"The fact that five years later we're not prepared, some people dropped the ball for sure. It's disappointing," Ellen, a staunch critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, concluded.
