b1-66er: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/02/825200206/doctors-say-hospitals-are-stopping-them-from-wearing-masks
DENT: That's crazy and ridiculous. I could see rationing masks and saying you have to make these masks last all month. Use them as you see fit, but one person
can't hog all the masks. We are using each n95 mask for 5 days. I am working on a ridiculously simple process to disinfect them.
b1: I'm losing track of time. Are you back working now? How was you week of respite?
DENT: 1/3 I am back at the office. My clinic load is down at least 50% and all of the elective surgeries (which is nearly all of them) have been cancelled or rescheduled. The week off was good. Kind of a forced time out. I made French bread. The key is to add extra gluten and then spray the loaves with water as they bake.
Almost all of my time on my week off was watching the latest news and info on the coronavirus, of course. It is pretty much all consuming.
b1: Yes. I'm glad you were able to grab some sense if normalcy.
Everything to now has been softening fire.
DENT: It is going to get really ugly in the next 10 days or so. Doubling time is still 3 days. We will have 10x the cases in 2 weeks. The administration's estimate of 100,000-200,000 deaths is off by a factor of 10 at least. If 50% of the US population gets this (150 M) and you even use a very conservative mortality
rate of 1% you get 1.5M. The current death rate is 5% of those tested. Italy's death rate is 11%.
b1: Keep your viral pathways closed, my friend.
Good luck.
