When soaps and other Hollywood shows restarted production after the first COVID-19 wave in 2020, unions came up with rules and procedures that all productions had to adhere to for safety reasons, according to Variety.
In addition, individual shows set up their own rules as the pandemic went on, like a vaccine mandate at "General Hospital" dictated by Disney, which owns the soap.
When Richard Burgi tested positive for COVID-19 over the holiday break for "The Young and the Restless" cast and crew, he returned to work thinking he was following the soap's guidelines, which he thought were dictated by the CDC. But he was wrong, as he explained in another Instagram story.
"I was back east over Christmas and tested positive somewhere around Christmas [and was] at my niece's house and visiting my 97-year-old mom," Burgi said (via Soap Hub). "I took the necessary five days [quarantine] that the CDC recommended."
