Is anybody else still struggling with the fact that this is *real*?

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11. I wake up thinking I dreamed it and quickly realize I did not.

I and everyone I know works directly in or related to healthcare. My sister, an ER nurse in Atlanta just told me that her hospital, part of Emory, just brought in an ER nurse coworker of hers and intubated her husband--both with COVID-19. She and her coworkers seem to think he was the source-- from his work, rather than the hospital, but...

Now I just got a text from a good friend who is now fully symptomatic 12 days after sitting next to a coughing man on a flight back from Houston. She has lots of risk factors though is not beyond her 60s, both autoimmune factors, and past pneumonia. Her husband is on chemo for malignant cancer, so I'm waiting to hear if she's going to need me to don one of my two remaining N-95 masks and transport her to the hospital. Of course, she is freaked out.

Frankly, although I'm hardly new to any of this-- so am I.