If this is your first time registering, please check your inbox for more information about the benefits of your Forbes account and what you can do next! Red alert. The Empire State Building lights up in emergency red in honor of hospital workers coping ... [+] with the onslaught of new SARS coronavirus patients in New York City. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) “Virologist” Bill Gates thinks the country needs to be locked down for 10-weeks — no beaches, no hiking, no restaurants in towns with zero cases for miles and miles.