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Deadline Hollywood reports:

Late-night hosts are brought in by networks to provide comic relief at their upfront presentations. But turns out Seth Meyers was only half joking when he told the thousands who had packed Radio City Music Hall for NBCUniversal’s presentation, “What a historic room to be able to tell people you got Covid in.”

Ten days later, Covid cases are sweeping through the ranks of those who attended the marathon of events in New York last week.

Top-level executives at virtually all of the major networks and studios have been impacted, along with support staff that worked on the presentations as well as media buyers and reporters who attended the string of events.

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How Upfronts 2022 Became Covid Superspreader Event https://t.co/qnPNZ99tdp

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 25, 2022