[Wayne 962]

The same doctor I spoke with this morning just called me. I just wrote an email to a friend, cut-and-paste:

Just got off the phone with my friend who is a doctor at a hospital in Norwalk. He says it’s eerily empty in there. It’s like the part when the ocean recedes back, right before the tsunami hits. There are no masks or protective gear available. Despite what you hear on the news, there are no tests available – he said the hospital is allocated 30 per day. He’s heard that there has been an uptick in crime surrounding one of the partner hospitals nearer to downtown. He also said this “it only affects old people” stuff is untrue – the old people just die quicker. He’s hearing about younger people that can’t kick this and then they take about 1-2 months to die. So, all of those people that are sick in Asia that haven’t died or recovered, he thinks the death rate will go up when the dust settles. 20% of the patients who get this need to be hospitalized – he thinks it could overrun the hospitals in a matter of days. He said that he expected a full shutdown of NYC no later than Friday, and Los Angeles soon too. When I got off the phone, I called someone else, and they told me that while I was on the phone, Orange County shut down every business. My doctor friend said that Mnuchin mentioned there could be 20% unemployment by the end of the year due to this.