Cancel the US Open and re-purpose the time NOW! ( 4 minute read) By Javier Palenque

“What? Are you insane the show must go on “ were the words of my NY friend when I suggested the USTA must cancel the show this fall, I said to him just hear me out, sit down, listen to my reasons and then tell me your opinion?

Let us look at the facts:

Scientific Reasons

• We are at a minimum of 12–18 months away for a vaccine for the Corona Virus. The US Open is scheduled in the next 5 months. Do the math, not enough time.
• The CDC recommendation is to keep the restrictions for the next 8 -12 weeks, this brings us to the end of April early May, this is with incomplete knowledge of the real situation until we have more tests available for the population.
• It is fair to assume that we have probably 10X the number of infected people due to a lack of tests of much of the infected population.
• Today (3/22)
• 3/20) the CDC reports 15,219 cases and 201 deaths if we consider that number to be 10X under reported we have probably 152,190 and should expect 2000 deaths. Of those, the state of NY has 50% of them. No one I know is going to NYC unless it is absolutely necessary much less near the end of August by when we will be starting to learn how bad this whole pandemic really was or still is.