I'm sorry to hear that freewill. (((((hugs)))))
I haven't been getting panic attacks as often as I used to, but I can understand how difficult it is to deal with them in public. Usually, I just try to sit down somwehere, anywhere I can, and just focus on my breathing, perhaps do some guided imagery if I can concentrate enough. I don't know if there really is a good way to 'cover' a panic attack, but asthma attack is a good one, I might have to use that some day!
Just getting away from the crowd usually helps me manage: go to a batroom, or some remote corner, a changing room, whatever you have to do to get that space you need.
Hope this helps.
Take care,
 
J
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"One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to stregthen failing courage, to instill faith in hours of despair."
-Bertrand Russell
With love and hope,
<~/J\~>
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