Around midnight in the hospital, new infected patients appeared one after another. Since it was late at night, and many people were afraid when they found out that they were infected, their first reaction was to hide it first.
It was not until three o'clock in the morning that when the nurses made rounds, they found that something was wrong with one of the patients.
I went in and turned on the light to check my body temperature, but the other party was stimulated by the light in the ward, showing pain, madness, and even wanting to attack others, which made the nurse suspect that he was infected with new blood porphyrin phyllosis.
After finally escaping from the opponent, he immediately reported the matter.
At the same time, other doctors discovered other newly infected patients during night patrols, and reported them as well.
This matter was quickly reported to Norman and Miles, and it was rare for the two to make a unanimous decision, so they immediately investigated overnight.
This is impossible to check, and news of new infected people will be found almost every once in a while.
Originally, patients with porphyria were concentrated in Building 9. Except for the doctors and nurses who entered and exited that building wearing protective clothing, the rest of the floors were still in ordinary doctor attire.
This time something like this happened, everyone was fully armed, and once they found that the newly infected person was attacking others, they would be given a tranquilizer immediately, and then took the opportunity to transfer the person to Building No. 9.
The stretchers coming and going to and from Building 9 did not stop that night. In just over an hour of investigation, they found more than 700 newly infected people, nearly ten times the original number.
This data is very scary, and it is still increasing.
Among the infected are not only patients and family members, but also many doctors and nurses.
Shi Fei didn't go to sleep until after one o'clock in the morning, and received the news at four o'clock in the morning. At that time, the hospital was conducting a surprise inspection of all the rooms, whether it was the ward or the dormitory. He didn't know at first that he had slept for less than three hours. what's going on.
When they heard what happened in the middle of the night to the people who came to investigate, he and Chu Hui lost all sleepiness.
By five o'clock, nearly 900 new infections had been detected.
Those infected were all isolated one by one, and the hospital beds in Building 9 soon ran out, and Miles expanded the isolation building to Building 10 next door.
Building No. 10 was originally an inpatient building. Under special circumstances, only a few people who were not infected could be squeezed into one room to free up empty rooms.
What is more frightening than checking out new infected people continuously is that they don't know how these infected people are infected.
They all checked and questioned them uniformly, and found that there were no scratches or bites on these people, and basically none of them had contact with patients with porphyria, so there was no way of infection at all.
While checking for newly infected patients overnight, the hospital's senior management was holding an emergency meeting.
Shi Fei, as a person who has made important contributions to controlling the disease, is also among the meeting staff.
In the conference room of Nuo University, there were hundreds of important doctors, including two deans, Norman and Myers, sitting above them.
Everyone sitting here needs to discuss how the infected people who suddenly broke out were infected.
Many people think that the way of infection has increased, and perhaps it can be transmitted through the air. This statement has been opposed by some people. If it is airborne, why are some people who are close to the isolation building No. 9 all right
Supporters think that it should be that the antibodies in each person's body are different and play a role.
Some people also suggested that maybe there may be cross-infection now.
Seeing them having a heated discussion there, Shi Fei was lost in thought.
The sudden outbreak of so many infected people must have a new transmission route. If the reason for the new transmission route cannot be found, the consequences will be disastrous. By then, it will not only be a hospital, but will even spread all over the world.
At this moment, Shi Fei felt his stomach growling. Originally, he didn't eat dinner last night, and then he was busy working until midnight, so he casually took bread as a cushion.
This will wake up early for meetings, and my stomach can't hold it anymore and I'm hungry.
He touched his stomach to appease the feeling of hunger a little, and suddenly a thought flashed through his mind.
diet
Shi Fei stood up abruptly, looked at everyone and asked, "Where did you settle for dinner last night?"
Miles, who was talking, was interrupted by Shi Fei inexplicably, his originally white face turned green, thinking that Shi Fei was deliberately playing against him, "Don't you Chinese claim to be a great country of etiquette? It's so impolite ?"
Shi Fei directly skipped the forced questioning of Miles, and continued: "I just wondered if there might be a problem with diet. According to the whole hospital, there is only one dining hall, and my companion and I were too busy last night. Haven't eaten the food in the cafeteria, how about you?"
Everyone soon realized what Shi Fei meant.
Ganan Central Hospital is very large, with nearly 5,000 doctors and nurses, and thousands of staff members, not to mention at least 20,000 to 30,000 patients and their families.
Obviously it is impossible to have only one cafeteria.
There are several supermarkets in the city center of Ganan, and the canteens are also divided into four canteens. Each of the four canteens has its own characteristics, and the usual business is similar.
Everyone asked themselves which cafeteria they ate in. Some ate in the east cafeteria, some ate in the north cafeteria, and some ate in the west cafeteria. Except for those who were too busy like Shi Fei, they didn’t eat at all. One person ate in Nan Canteen.
Everyone soon understood that the problem was in the Nan canteen.
Soon Miles ordered someone to go down and ask those patients who had just been diagnosed with the infection whether they had had dinner in the South Canteen.
The news came back one by one, and it was true.
Either go to the Nan Canteen to eat by yourself, or ask someone to bring back the food from the Nan Canteen.
Knowing the source of the spread of newly infected people, everyone understands that it is very likely that infected patients or family members are maliciously retaliating against society.
However, people in country M don't like to install surveillance in many places, thinking that it violates personal privacy. There is no surveillance in the cafeteria. They don't know who the murderer is if they know what's going on, and they don't even know if the other party has another move.
As of six o'clock in the morning, less than one-third of the people in the hospital have been screened, but there are already more than a thousand confirmed infections.
This astonishing number directly frightened all the medical staff in the entire hospital. They knew very well what kind of infection numbers they would face after all the investigations were completed.
Originally, he planned to lift the ban today, and he could come and go freely after confirming that he was not infected. Now Myers wanted to withdraw this decision.
Faced with Miles' request to lift the ban, Shi Fei had a different idea: "I don't think the ban should be lifted. First, we have found out that the newly infected people in this outbreak are not new. The way of transmission is that some people do it maliciously, so it is useless to trap everyone here. Second, the more people are trapped here, the more anxious everyone is, and they will take up most of the medical resources. Let those Those who are not infected and do not need to be hospitalized should be discharged as soon as possible, so as to increase the utilization of hospital beds."
Norman felt that what Shi Fei said made sense and agreed with his idea.
Miles disagreed, thinking that the murderer has not been caught now, and if the murderer goes out with the blood of the infected person after the ban is lifted, who will bear the responsibility if he then harms outsiders.
At least the ban is still there, the murderer is in this hospital, and nothing will be extended outside.
"First of all, the murderer must investigate, starting with the original 80-plus infected people and the people around him. Those people are controlled and not released first, so I don't think it's a big problem." Shi Fei's implication That is, the murderer was among the original infected person and his family members.
Miles snorted coldly: "If that's the case, Meng Tian is also infected. He is now abroad. Are you and your two teammates considered to be his family members? They should be controlled."
Shi Fei said indifferently: "I don't mind controlling us, as long as you give the order."
Control the Huaxia doctor who came to assist the doctor in country m. If the news spreads, he, the dean, will also be punished by the whole world. refused to let.
Seeing this, Norman hurried out to smooth things over, Shi Fei said casually: "I just made a suggestion, you can discuss the specifics on how to do it yourself, so as not to blame me if something happens later."
After some discussion, most people think that Shi Fei's method is still feasible, so many family members and their patients are locked up in the hospital, which is indeed a burden on the hospital's various consumption.
Miles, despite his dislike for Shi Fei, eventually did it his way.
Even Ganan Hospital suggested that if there are no patients who must be hospitalized, they should choose to be discharged as much as possible.
Now that this kind of thing happened in the hospital, all the patients who could survive would rather choose to be discharged from the hospital, even if they were seriously injured and could not be discharged from the hospital, they would try to choose the way of transfer.
At around noon, all the personnel in the hospital were finally screened again. There were only 86 infected people, but now 3261 infected people have been added, for a total of 3347 infected people.
Even if the ban is lifted, many people choose to be discharged from the hospital. Faced with more than 3,000 more infected people, the pressure on the hospital is also very high.
There are only 1020 ward beds in the hospital.
In desperation, the original ward for one person had to become a ward for four, five, or even five or six porphyria patients.
Urgently call the beds in other nearby hospitals.
Due to the occurrence of food being poisoned, the hospital also strictly guarded each canteen to avoid similar incidents. Before the murderer was caught, the food for the past few days was brought in from outside.
There were more than 3,000 infected people all of a sudden. In addition to the pressure on the doctors in the hospital, Shi Fei was also under great pressure.
Although he didn't like Miles, it was impossible for a doctor to watch patients suffer and leave him alone.
In the entire hospital, only the medicine he made could temporarily control it, even if he announced the formula.
The amount of medicinal materials is also far from enough. The medicinal materials sent by the people yesterday are a drop in the bucket for more than 3,000 infected people.
The most important thing is that he is the only one in the whole hospital who knows the acupuncture and moxibustion techniques of Huaxia Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Without control, patients will struggle and bite once they have an attack, and many patients have been injected with sedatives as a last resort.
Unfortunately, the hospital did not have so many sedatives in stock, and even if the nearby hospital transferred the stock, it was still far from enough.
This is in great demand.
The matter in the hospital here has not been dealt with properly, and the news of the second major outbreak of infection in the hospital spread quickly as if it had grown wings.
Dozens of people were all trapped in the hospital before, and the people outside were probably just watching the excitement, not worrying too much, but now knowing that there were more than 3,000 people in one night, it really makes people afraid of getting this disease.
Everyone was worried that since that person could deliberately put the infected person's blood in the food, he might run outside and pour it in other restaurants, or even in the water source.
For a while, the hearts of country M were in turmoil. Although the hospital released the news, according to the analysis, the murderer should still be in the hospital, and there will be no large-scale outbreak of infected people outside.
But everyone's news about the hospital did not play a comforting role at all.
If this kind of thing happened in China, the Chinese people would definitely stock up on rice, pasta, and instant noodles first, but people in country M basically don't eat instant noodles, and there are no packaged instant foods in supermarkets.
So a phenomenon began to appear in country m, that is, everyone started hoarding tissues.
Netizens far away in China were dumbfounded when they saw this strange move, and couldn't figure out their thinking.