As the coronavirus may be at its apex, David Blaine is on call. Not as a doctor, of course, but as a magician. He’s been making himself available to entertain patients, first-responders and medical workers who are fighting the pandemic.
Though he’s been performing in hospitals since age 18, Blaine, now 47, has had to figure out how to do his mind-blowing tricks remotely, via FaceTime on iPad — a medium that feels custom made for these times of social distancing.
And when he says “I tell [hospital personnel] to call me whenever it works for them and I’ll make the time,” he isn’t kidding. “I was driving once, got a call and pulled over immediately,” Blaine, who lives in Manhattan but is in Los Angeles, tells The Post. “I took out a deck of