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Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Executive Vice President of WWE for Global Talent and Strategy Development recently talked about the methods that the WWE is taking to further ensure that their stars and their employees would be safe from the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the past few months, while major sporting events have been cancelled, WWE kept with their programming as scheduled, though they have implemented a “no fans” policy and taped all episodes in their Performance Center in Florida.
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In an interview with Yahoo Sports, Triple H opened up about how his organizations is currently dealing with the threat of the pandemic.
“This is a difficult experience and a learning experience for everybody, especially for us,” he said. “Everything that we are doing, health and safety-wise has evolved at the Performance Center. As we learn more about it and as this changes, we’re going to continue to evolve. I feel like every day you’re getting different information.”
He also gave an update on how mass testing is being implemented, and how they are also on to implementing other health and safety measures ion the fights that are being taped in their Florida center. Levesque also added that the WWE is doing its best to comply with government and international health standards.
“Right now, we’re testing all talent, production crew, employees, everybody in advance of the television production and will continue that for the foreseeable future,” he added. “We were doing what the guidelines, what the CDC, what our medical staff were telling us were the most beneficial procedures for the health and well-being of our talent, staff and crew at that time. As the technology has advanced and the ability to test people has improved, we have stayed on top of that as well.
As for the concern over the rising number of people within the organization testing positive for the virus, the WWE executive thinks that more people testing positive can be a good thing, and not something to worry about. He believes that it means that they are doing something right.
“When you see there are positives, that is the system working,” Levesque added.
More people testing positive
Following the news of people from the WWE–both stars and staff alike–testing positive for COVID-19, news of more people testing positive had come out recently.
The new report claimed that there are at least 30 new people from the WWE Performance Center in Florida in the past three weeks. While WWE remains to be tight-lipped about any specific information on who tested positive and how many tested positive, rumors had it that the number of these positive patients included in-ring talent as well as workers working behind the scenes like people on camera, production staff, and other workers in the Performance Center.
Since WWE started mass testing within the organization last June, there had been at least 1,500 tests administered. So far, the only people known to be positive for COVID-19 are producers Jamie Noble and Adam Pearce, and on-air talents Kayla Braxton and Renee Young. These confirmations did not come from WWE though, as they were only announced through the social media accounts of the people involved.
Also recently, WWE issued a policy that mandated everyone in attendance at the Performance Center in Florida to wear face masks or face a fine of not lower than $500 for the first offense, and a fine of $1000 for the second offense.