NBC Pulls Al Roker and Craig Melvin Off Air After ‘Today’ Show Staffer Tests Positive for Coronavirus

NBC has pulled Al Roker and Craig Melvin from the airwaves on Monday after a staffer for the third hour of the Today show tested positive for Coronavirus. The person has not been named and NBC president Noah Oppenheim told staff he was being treated for ‘mild symptoms’.

NBC is now trying to trace the staffer’s movements and interactions he may have had with others at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. All members of the Today show’s third-hour editorial team will work from home but the show itself will go on as normal.

The Today show’s Savannah Guthrie announced at the beginning of the show that Roker and Melvin ‘have taken the morning off so we can trace their contacts, see what’s going on with them’.

(h/t Contemptor)