And it would be fast. The hospitals and medical staff would be hit hard, and hit first.
Consider that 70% of medical personnel would be hit.
Your death rate increases significantly if no one is left to treat the sick. Heart attacks, strokes, accidents...the mortality rate for everything else will skyrocket.
Your 62 million could easily pop up to nearly 100 million pretty darned soon.
I never considered that. And think of the first responders...emt's etc. They would have to fully suit up on each and every call or risk exposure.