‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ Producers Blame Production Halt on ‘False Positive’ COVID-19 Tests Returned by Lab

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“The Bold and the Beautiful” was forced to put a brief stopper in production last week, in order to upgrade its COVID-19 testing capacities to accommodate “the large volume of te…

Now, the long-running CBS soap’s producer Bell-Phillip Television has issued a statement blaming the production delays on the testing lab provided by TV City, where the series shoots, which returned “several false positive” results. The statement categorically denies that any of the cast and crew tested were confirmed to be positive for COVID-19, and says that it will switch to a new lab for testing going forward.

“The Health Department had some additional questions about the lab TV City provided ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ with last week, which produced several false positives,” said the spokesperson. “Bell-Phillip Television changed labs and resolved all problems. We have not had, nor do we have, any positive COVID-19 cases and are not ‘shut down,’ but we needed an additional day to provide them with requested information.

 

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they back on production 🥴 good luck

How can it be false positive?

Damned expensive ‘false positive’, it would seem. COVID19 panic

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