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Inside a COVID ward. Former Michigan football captain Chris Hutchinson is a doctor, which means he's doing everything he can to deal with COVID-19:

"We saw one COVID patient per shift for a few days," Hutchinson recalled of March 9-10. "Then, there were many each shift. And a few days after that, it was pretty much all we were seeing come in.

"That was when we had drive-through testing set up, and the first day we saw 50. Next day, we saw 100. The next day we saw 200, and then in two or three days we saw 300 people coming through the drive-through."

Hospitals are already hitting limits:

"We had a smaller hospital call and tell us they have a COVID-positive patient but are out of ICU beds," said Hutchinson of intensive care units. "We told them, 'Nobody has ICU beds. We can't take your transfer because we don't have very many beds.' We've had to convert other areas in the hospital into ICUs.

"Everyone has to deal with this, and unfortunately we are right at the front end of it, still on the curve -- a steep, upward curve."

Stay inside, people. Waffle Houses are closing. Binge watch Altered Carbon, because you might have to watch it six times to understand what's going on. Or every strongman competition ever.

[After THE JUMP: the official BCHL team of Hellboy]