Not surprisingly, fear is the subject of a school of research all its own as well be hearing from david pogue, in our cover story. Coronavirus fear is normal even healthy right up to the point it gets dangerous. Most dont have the expert knowledge so when are afraid we engage in behaviors like putting on a mask that may not work. The fear is using judgment in ways that arent useful. The rational and the rational, and irrational responses to an invisible threat, ahead on sunday morning. Much as we might not want to think about it a rapid increase in coronavirus cases could soon force doctors to make extremely difficult medical and ethical choices as well be hearing from ted koppel. Hospitals are desperately short of ventilators and as the numbea decisions. So youve got me in your hospital. And youve got a 22 year old, and both of us need that piece of equipment. Who gets it . I think by most the younger person would be assigned that ventilator. Then look in the camera and say, ted, you die. Thats the issue. Who lives and dies ahead on sunday morning. Lee rest assured were not devoting our whole broadcast to times of economic distress. Alicia keys is relaefg r releasing a new book. Alicia keys has always seemed fearless but never felt that way until she learned to slow down. How has it changed how you live your life . Its great. I think it change will how i live my life a lot. Some insight on take a little time for yourselves especially now that we have to. Alicia keys later on sunday morning. Business correspondent jill schles schlessinger. Seth doane has a most unusual postcard from italy. Mo rocca takes us to ground zero for this and every other epidemic in American History new yorks Bellevue Hospital and suggestions on distractions while considering while homebound. There are no sunday headlines this morning, that will have to wait until were back home in our studio. Instead, well begin this sunday morning, march 22, 2020 with the latest from dr. Jon lapook. When we come back. A lot has changed overnight. But buick and gmcs commitment to you, remains the same. We understand you want to feel safe. So were offering current owners complementary onstar crisis assist services. Should you need a vehicle, were offering zero percent financing for up to 84 months plus, you may have the option to shop online and take delivery at home. Bs plus, you may have the option to shop online fothe help you need. Buick and gmc. Were here to help. More than ever, your home is your sanctuary. Thats why lincoln offers complimentary pickup and delivery servicing. Well pick up your vehicle and leave you with a lincoln loaner and the peace of mind that helps you focus on what matters most. Thats the power of sanctuary. And for a little extra help, you can now purchase a new lincoln remotely, and defer payment for up to 120 days. Ndayorning. First fis her. Jon lapook. So where do things stand this sunday morning, with this virus disrupting all of our lives . First things first. Heres dr. Jon lapook i know this is an unsettling time. Nobody likes to feel out of control. I know i dont. But there are things we can do together to help slow this outbreak, and it all centers around the concept of flattening the curve. Now what do i mean by that . Early on in an epidemic, you see a spike in cases. You see it here in yellow. And when that happens, the Healthcare System can get totally overwhelmed. Not enough Health Professionals, not enough hospital beds, not enough medical equipment. But if you can somehow do something to flatten that curve, to just delay it, you see it here in purple, then maybe the system wont get that huge pressure on it, and it wont crack. What do you do to prevent that . Well, it centers around things youve been hearing. Things like proper hygiene. Wash your hands for 20 seconds. If you have to cough or sneeze, cough into a tissue or the crook of your arm. And then theres this social distancing. That basically just means staying away from each other. Is there evidence that it works . Absolutely. In places like china, south korea, were seeing it work. But in order for it to work, we have to all do it together. We all have to do it everywhere, and we have to do it right now. Doin imonth, but e may b absolutely right now. Now we know the most vulnerable population are the people who are elderly, people with serious underlying conditions. But now weve learned in the last week that people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s can also get very ill and even if they dont get very sick, they can have mild symptoms or even no symptoms and infect others. This is no time to be selfish. You have to think about your parents, your grandparents, and we have to listen to our Public Health officials and absolutely follow their advice to the letter. No exceptions. Now at a time like this, i worry about when were distancing ourselves physically from each other, how do we Stay Together emotionally. If there ever was a time to pick up the phone and just contact somebody else, its now. Think ab yy. Are there people out there in Nursing Homes and other places that you can call . And we have to think out of the box. When broadway theatres were closed, my friends, producer james wesley and his husband musician Seth Rudetsky said, the show must go on. So theyve been livestreaming performances by broadway stars and other entertainers right from their homes. Last week was Opening Night with tony award winner kelli ohara but im stuck like a dope, with a thing called hope and i cant get it out of my heart. And finally, i just want to remind people that even though this is a very bumpy road, it will have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Remember about 80 percent of cases are relatively mild. 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Watching toilets with your foot . Always. Heres your bunker. Like so many other americans, julie has stocked up on supplies oh heres your bunker shes even made her own stylish face masks. And thatll protect me. Itll cover from the top to the bottom. Even before the coronavirus was considered a pandemic considered a pandemic, julie was taking all the rational, recommended steps, but fear is also making people to do all kinds of irrational thingssometimes dangerous things. Panicbuying toilet paper attacking people just for looking asian. Buying unproven home remedies. Considering gargling with bleach . Arent we supposed to be the rational animal . Were supposed to be the rational animal. But theres a lot going on in your head thats kind of under your conscious radar. David desteno is a psychology professor at Northeastern University whos studied how fear can drive us batty. Under what circumstances do our brains run away with the fear . So they run away with the fear if we dont have accurate information. Like that guy over there on the subway, he looks like hes gonna sneeze and, like, hes sweaty. Does he have the coronavirus or not . I dont know. When you dont know the information, it gives a lot more range for your emotions to fill in the blank. Right, so mr. Spock from star trek, he would have an accurate assessment of the virus risk . Yes, yes. He would have an accurate assessment of the virus risk. The stress circuit is there to really help us respond to stress and adapt in the world. Rajita sinha is a yale psychiatry professor and director of the yale interdisciplinary stress center. She says that three factors can make fear spiral out of control the first, is if it is unpredictable. Right. Right . And the second if its uncontrollable. Okay . And the third is if its sustained and chronic. So how then does this virus fit into these three categories . Yes, unfortunately we have all three classes of problematic stress. You mentioned the issue of control. So is there a sense things wild things are doing and gargling with bleach and spraying people in the subway are trying to get out of control . We go to extreme sometimes to gain control to have a sense we can do something about it. I took a lot of naps. I play on the phone. Whatever. Mark jorgenson Mark Jorgenson was a passenger on the diamond princess, the cruise ship that quarantined its passengers for two weeks in japan. So how was your cruise . Yeah, other than that, mrs. Lincoln, how was the play. At some point they got the virus. Wife got the virus. Hes now quarantined at his home in st george, utah. I never had and continue to not have any symptoms not even slightly, nothing. But jorgenson and his wife have received hostile comments from people online. What sorts of things were people saying. Lets find out where he is and go get him. Dont you dare come back to st. George. Youll regret it. They were threatening you guys . With the amount of fear this has generated i should have known some people would be fearful and often the way pple now, now, we cant help what we feel. Our brains evolved to respond to dangers that we sense around us. But desteno says that were now sensing danger around the clockon our screens. Im im not saying thats a bad thing. We wanna be informed. But we kind of need a software update. Right . Our brain hasnt evolved to be able to adjust to what were seeing in the media, versus whats really in our local environment. Of course, it doesnt help that virus movies like contagion and outbreak have painted a horrific picture in our minds. Both have been climbing the rental charts this week. And social media, like facebook and twitter, only make matters worse. The other thing we know about emotions is theyre contagious. Lets say i suddenly looked very frightened. I suddenly went right . Thats gonna evoke very quickly a fear response. Right. cause it signals to you that im seeing something behind you and dr. Co is a Department Chair of epidemiology at the yale school of Public Health and an asked him to help us distinguish rational responses from irrational ones. Can you get it from a package from china . No. Can you get it from sweat . No. And last thing, ways to kill it, soap and water . Soap and waters the best. Hand sanitizer. Hand sanitizer but has to have more than 60 alcohol. How about antibiotics . Certainly not. Its a virus. Antibiotics work against fungi and baer ss anxiety and fear can be useful. They can drive us to taking healthy actions. The trick is to recognize when our fear has gone off the rails and become dangerous because as professor dee steno says. Were in the perfect storm. Most of us cant think like ep deem yol gifts or dep and the fear makes us think everythings more dangerous. Fights cancer, repairs shattered bones, relieves depression, restores heart rhythms, helps your whole life. 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Hes prepared what may be our most unusual sunday morning postcard ever first, we watched wuhan empty its streets and it felt so far away, then it was the canals of venice, and the piazzas of rome, empty too. Now across the world the odd concept of quarantine has become surprisingly familiar my husband, andrea, and i have been lockedin for nearly twoweeks in rome. The Health Authorities have called. They say theyre about fifteen minutes away. Theyre on their way to give me a test. Ive been keeping a journal on my phone after being exposed and then testing positive for the coronavirus. Well, i got the news tonight that i was hoping not to get. For me, the symptoms have been a wospierwhmed, is fortunate doctors have been forced to prioritize patients in the icu, filled newspapers. Im not worried about my health im feeling okay, im relatively young ill be fine, but this idea of possibly passing it along is the worst. So, like so many around the world now, we stay in, working from home, relying on the kindness of others okay, our neighbor went shopping for us, its very sweet of him. Italians, who invented opera, have again come up with a musical distraction fitting for our time. This has become a very cool evening tradition. Singing from a safe distance, filling empty streets and squares with a little levity and sound. In all of this unpleasantness , its great its just. You think of all of these people in these big cities around italy, cooped up at home and its something to look forward to. Amid thi unimaginable tragedy theyve found humor. And have highlighted the gastronomic possibilities of quarantine. Our 6 meals virtually. In this country, which has been shut down aperitivo is now by videochat, dinner is too, as we search for ways to keep our Human Connection. 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Weve never closed. But now the chairs are stacked on the tables. Katzs, like most restaurants across the country, is prohibited from seating diners. So the bagels and blintzes are only available to go. Jake dell is the thirdgeneration owner of katzs. Hes desperately trying to keep his 200 workers busy and more importantly, to keep paying them. Waiters, for example, are doing deliveries or working on crowd control you know, i have busboys that i obviously dont need to clean tables right now, so im having them do prep work. Basically everyone is an allhandsondeck, and we take it one day at a time. Alfredo fernandez has put his knife to work at katzs for 14 years. Im concerned, a lot of people gonna go without jobs. And if it happens, you know, we just gotta you just gotta stick together and try to help each other out through this. At least katzs is still open. As the Global Economy enters an unprecedented shutdown, just look around Major League Sports have left the field, factories and shopping malls are shuttered, the lights have gone dark on broadway. And the curtain has come down for manhattans independent theaters like the magnet theater. Im sitting here in an empty theatre. And its empty every night. Were shut down. New york city is shut down. Actor ed herbstman cofounded the magnet, which is dedicated to improv. He remembers the good old days like a week and a half ago. We were booming. Thirtyfive to 40 shows a week, backtoback each night. The magnet has 50 employees but the damage goes beyond those 50, theres a web of companies and workers that supply everything from utilities to tshirts to beer, theyll all feel the impact of the theaters closing. Im worried about the future of this place. Well, im worried about the future of the city. Ifyou look back on your life, youve lived through a lot of different shaky economic periods. Can you tell me how this period feels to you today versus what youve seen in the past . Oh, to me i think this is the most nerve racking. Joseph stiglitz won the nobel prize for economics in 2001 and is a professor at Columbia University. This is totally different, where were shutting down the economy to protect our health. Stiglitz believes that the previrus economy was one where too many were left exposed where both families and businesses alike were at risk, if conditions soured. Before the event many of our households were living at the edge. The average amount in the bank that some, you know, 50 , 70 of americans have is 500odd, 1