The seventeenth season of the medical drama series is back in the midst of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as Grey Sloan Memorial and its surgeons’ lives have been turned upside down. The season picks up one month into the pandemic, and it’s all-hands-on-deck as Meredith, Bailey and the rest of the Grey Sloan doctors find themselves on the frontlines of a new era. The doctors will need to face their new reality and deal with a familiar and stubborn patient.