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@colleenyoung

@fair2all, Hi Jack. You and your family certainly were well prepared and wise to go into quarantine early before it was mandated, especially in New York. Do you live in an urban center or rural?

I can certainly understand your concern about planning for "an exit." and you are well advised to consider that ahead of time in as far as that is possible. Is your son seen locally for his medical needs and coordinated with his team at Mayo Clinic. Do you still go to Mayo for followup visits? I ask because I'm curious to know how that may look for your son in the near term and how telemedicine might now play a role in his care.

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Thank you Colleen! We live in Larchmont in Westchester County, a Northern suburb 20 miles from Manhattan. It's a small town in the County that became the ground zero of the beginning of the spread of the virus in NY, that started a week after we enclosed ourselves at home. All the main Doctors of our son are and have always been at the Mayo. We visit the Clinic every 6 months for regular checkups and we were actually due for a visit 2 weeks ago. We have here his General Practitioner, but we don't do anything without the approval and directions of his Doctors at the Clinic. We spoke with his Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at the Clinic, and we were satisfied with their approval of our plans, they monitor his Heart Rhythm electronically through his Defibrillator, he is doing well, we know to look and to determine if there is any changes in his wellbeing, and as long as he is stable as he has been since his last surgery, we are staying in place, and make the best of it. When there is going to be an absolute safe window of possibility for safe travel to Rochester, we will go for a checkup. His wellbeing's importance to us is such that if we notice that there is a change in his stability, we won't hesitate to fly him on a fixed wing Ambulance Jet. His Physicians at the clinic, know that we rely on them to see down the road, what safe vaccine for his immune system will be available that they could recommend.