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Slack.com slash DHQ. The first thing I need you to understand about Dr. Clayton Kazan

is that he's got this almost alarming pep. That's what one of our producers called it,

anyway. I think you need pep to do what he does. He works in emergency services. So if

you call 911 in LA County, there's a pretty good chance you'll reach someone he manages.

The coronavirus means he's busy. Really busy. From about eight o'clock on, I'm usually

in and out of Zoom calls. Sometimes I've done what I call the Hittin' for the Psycho, where

you do a Zoom, a WebEx, a Teams, an actual conference call, and I'll hit all the different

platforms. I think my record for a day is like 10 zooms.

Dr. Kazan can rattle off the coronavirus statistics in LA. One COVID patient is dying there every

10 minutes. But Dr. Kazan, he also feels this crisis from a couple of different perspectives.

When he works his emergency room shifts a few times a month, he treats patients who are

unlikely to live. And then when he comes back to work at the LA County Fire Department,

he can plot out the way his firefighters and EMTs are actually part of community spread.

There's one day at the beginning of this surge where the numbers come in to meet every

day. How many new pauses do we have? How many are out sick? Just in our department. And

I'm looking at it and I started sending out GIF files from Titanic where the captain

is standing at the bridge. As you can see that the ship is going underwater. And I said,

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