The Tamron Hall Show crew members accuse the show of not taking coronavirus seriously enough, even after two shutdowns

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Four current crew members tell Buzzfeed News say they were told to come into work after other staffers were told to stay home following multiple positive tests. “Instead of playing it safe and telling everyone not to come in, they told us all to come in because it was more important for them to get that show in the can than to be upfront with us,” one employee said. “It felt really shady, and it felt like we weren’t working for human beings. It felt like we were working for robots who just wanted to get the show on the air.” The employees say that the ABC-produced daytime show is mainly concerned with staffers who work in close proximity to Tamron Hall. “We all felt everyone should be tested from the get-go, but they only wanted to test people who were in close contact with Tamron, which didn’t make much sense considering we were all in the same room with each other,” one crew member said. In a statement, ABC said that after “several members” of the production staff tested positive for COVID-19 in October, “we followed company protocols, state and local guidance, and CDC guidelines and had all positive cases isolate at home and any employee identified through contact tracing quarantine at home for 14 days.”