TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

PART 2, Chapter 12 (PAID)

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Chapter 12

PART 2

COVID

We’d been hearing about the virus in increasing awareness—mainly in China and Italy—throughout January, but it wasn’t until February that it started to feel real in the United States. In early February the first U.S. covid death was confirmed. I remember going to see my first doctor in New York City for a physical (I hadn’t had one in years) and mentioning the virus to him and him smiling and telling me there was nothing to worry about. He seemed so confident and certain. I was beginning to feel that gentle, pulsing unease I think we all were by then.

Sophia and I had finally hung out. She’d asked me to help her carry one of her massive 10x10 foot paintings ten blocks north on Amsterdam to deliver it to a young wealthy couple who’d bought it. By now it was freezing cold out, and …