Then I started reporting.
I began by listening to a news conference with Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I expected a reassuring message that what was happening in China pop-up hospital wards and healthcare workers suffering from physical and mental exhaustion would not occur in the United States. Naive and ignorant, I believed that full-blown pandemics were something that only happened in distant lands and the movies, not here.
Peet Sapsin leads a fitness class for participants separated by protective barriers at Sapsin’s Inspire South Bay Fitness in Redondo Beach in June.