Silent Hill fic: Outbreak - Chapter 13: Epidemiological Report (cont.)

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In chapter 13: Anna's investigation begins to catch up to her present in the town.

Anna Garcia’s Epidemiological report on unknown illness (cont.)

Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Official death toll: 36

The new fatalities on this day were: Paul Merrick (age 37), Gavin Sanderson (age 14), and Maddison Merrick (age 8).

Note that Paul Merrick, the search and rescue participant who found the island where Kyle Ericson and Andrew Flynn went missing, was among the deaths on this day. Tragically, his young daughter also passed away. At the time their names meant nothing more to me than any others; it was only after I had begun researching the appearance of the disease and spoken to his widow that I had any idea who he was. I wish I had been able to speak to him.

This was the day that I arrived in Silent Hill. I had been contacted late in the day on September 18, when Dr. Jane Molgren of Alchemilla Hospital called me. It had become clear to her by that point that the doctors sent by the CDC and Johns Hopkins, respectively, were not epidemiologists. That had been the hospital’s aim in asking for out-of-state aid, and there was a sense of frustrated betrayal at not receiving it. I again do wish to point out that I in no way question either Dr. Woodhouse or Dr. Escalarre’s expertise in their fields. I simply question whether they were the ideal fits for this situation.

Not that I am the ideal fit either. I am a trained epidemiologist, and have been working for years with the Maine Department of Health, but am in no way comparable to the much more elite EIS that they should have received assistance from. However, I have done my best.

[Note: at this point, I recognize that much more of my bias is likely to show, as the following events are ones I was present for. Prior to this, my report consisted of me reconstructing the day-to-day “history” in question, but after this I witnessed it. My supervisors are, as always, welcome to remove any asides that compromise the objectivity of the document.]

Much of this day, for me, was spent in gathering data. I had resisted doing much research prior to arriving; I did not want my avenues of inquiry to be unfairly limited by any preconceptions that I could have formed. I spoke with nurses and doctors in Alchemilla about the illness and its progression. I’m sure by this time they were completely tired of giving the rundown of “it’s like smallpox/anthrax/septicemic plague but it is not any of those” summary, but I thank them for going over it with me again.

I also took their instruction on the best ways to limit spread. As it was determined that I would have to be out among the community, it was decided that I should avoid being in Alchemilla more than absolutely necessary, to minimize the number of times I would have to go through the decontamination procedures.

As another vital component of my research would be getting patient and healthcare professional perspectives, I couldn’t stay away from Alchemilla altogether, but it was decided that I would visit the hospital at predetermined times for structured schedules of interviews. Dr. Molgren agreed to solicit volunteers willing to speak with me.

From my hotel that night, I did an internet search to try and find as much information as I could about public perception of the illness. Right or wrong, these perceptions can be extremely telling.

Most of the top results (controlled for relevancy to this illness at this time) were from local media. The Toluca Times ran a number of articles about it, as would be expected. Many of those articles have been reproduced earlier in this document.

The second most common result was for blog-style or social media posting. Some were simply personal entries, discussing infection of self or loved ones. Others were memorial posts made for victims. But the third type is what I would broadly class as “conspiracy driven.”

It is an unfortunate fact in the modern day that pseudoscience proliferates on the internet, and any tragedy, whether natural or manmade, will be twisted by those who choose to believe that bad things happening is proof of some nefarious hand behind it.

While I am not reproducing every post of this type that I found (in part because several seemed to largely reproduce text found within the most popular posts, or cited those popular posts as proof of their claims), I will include a couple as examples of the type of conspiracy theory that were most popular.

[New PSYOP Underway in Silent Hill, ME; Children Targeted! (posted on September 15, 2016 on the site PatriotTruthSeeker.com by contributor “vaxkills1776”)

Ameri-kill is at it again. In the little tourist town of Silent Hill in Maine, hundreds have been hospitalized with an “UNDISCLOSED” illness. Today it was reported to be plague until they retracted that statement, which tells me that they don’t want anyone to know what it really is, or else they would just announce it.

Details are limited, but some nurses have leaked information, saying that it’s some sort of skin infection, but they’ve already had AT LEAST 15 deaths, and most of those have been CHILDREN.

Since there’s no way there’s some illness that they don’t actually know about, I’m willing to bet that within another couple of weeks, we’ll be hearing about some “terrorist action” or “bio-attacks” or something. They might claim it’s some action by ISIS, but why would they target somewhere like Silent Hill? No, friends, it’s more likely they’ll blame it on a Patriot group, as one more excuse to start profiling us, limiting our freedoms, registering us… all “to protect the children,” of course. These monsters have already proven they’re willing to murder children in the name of their false flags… it’s almost laughably obvious that that’s all this is, too.

I won’t go so far as to say that these victims are just crisis actors… that’s not nearly as effective for something prolonged like this as compared to a shooting type false flag, and I fully believe the MONSTERS in charge of our “government” would find some kids an acceptable loss.

So the only REAL question is whether this was planned or not. Was it an accident and the inevitable “terror plot” will be the cover up? Or was this planned all along? Is it a planned test of one of our government’s new weapons? Or truly just a false flag, to justify some new assault on our freedoms?

I find it interesting that this illness supposedly started in the schools just after the beginning of the school year. You know what happens right before that?

MANDATORY VACCINES. If they wanted to plant a disease in the population, that would be a perfect time to do it. They wouldn’t even have to give it to EVERYONE, to make it harder to track. Say, just one in ten vaccines, loaded with some new lab-created virus… and you could wind up with just this situation.

Keep an eye on the REAL news, folks. Either this is going to prompt one hell of a government order, or it’s masking some other big move.]

[Zika Scare FAILED; “New” Disease Created As “Public Health Crisis” (posted on September 18, 2016 on the site NaturalGreenPharm.com by contributor “anti_shill”)

By now we all know that the attempts by Big Pharma and their government lapdogs to turn “Zika” into the scary new crisis have failed miserably.

Fortunately most people listened to us, the ones with the real information, and discovered the truth about Zika: that it’s not anything new, that most Americans are essentially immune, that the alleged “fetal abnormalities” are almost all actually caused by exposure to chemicals, etc.

It was pretty clear that trumping up Zika as a big scary new threat was just a cash-grab scheme by Big Pharma to create a vaccine (through hefty new grants, since they’d make sure the sheeple of the world would be in such a panic they’d be throwing money at the pharmaceutical companies to “save them”). The next step would have been making that vaccine mandatory.

Well, now that their scheme failed, they have to invent something new.

Reports are coming out of Silent Hill, Maine, a small northeast town, of an unidentified illness spreading through the town. Apparently the CDC has even taken notice, and sent an expert to “investigate.” The latest reports as of today say that the town’s hospital has been placed under quarantine, and testing is ongoing to determine what the illness is.

Since the hospitalizations started more than a week ago, I find that hard to believe.

Unfortunately, it appears they learned from their missteps with Zika. Back at the beginning of the year, they tried to convince us that a well-known disease was suddenly scary and new and dangerous, and it failed because we had too much information to fall for their lies. So this time they’ve opted for total mystery. We can’t disprove it if they don’t give us anything to push back against, they think. If it’s something totally new, there are no pesky “real facts” to trip them up.

Except we know how they work. Know that this is nothing new, just a new phase in the continued partnership between corrupt Big Pharma and our illegitimate government.

We need a revolution in this country, and these fools don’t realize that they’re bringing it about every time they do something like this.

A reminder to visit our webstore to stock up on immune boosters and natural remedies! Keeping yourself healthy is the first line of defense!]

The small consolation was that neither of these sources seemed to be local. One is a site based in Texas; the other has no physical address listed, but most of the articles are focused on events in the Midwest. While that would not guarantee it had no impact on local sentiment, at least there was some hope it wasn’t a widely-held belief within the town.

One other thing of note on this date:

On September 25, an anonymous source would forward me a series of emails, originally dated over several previous days. The emails certainly are disturbing in retrospect, considering an event that would happen on September 24.

Please note when I say my source was anonymous, this is not purely me protecting said source: I genuinely do not know who the source is. Therefore, please consider it unvetted. I do believe it to be genuine, but have no conclusive proof.

This first email, the one dated September 20, is not especially disturbing, or at least not more so than what it describes. But I will include all of the emails on the dates they were allegedly originally written.

[From: rshell@hmail.com, sent September 20, 2016 at 5:35 pm
To: [redacted]
Subject: Confined to hospital for now…

Sorry it looks like I won’t be over any time this week after all. I don’t want to worry you, but it looks like I must be sick… I knew it was only a matter of time, working around so many infected people. Still, I’d hoped… oh well. At least it means I’m in the best place possible for them to figure out how to treat it right? If they could at least keep me from having these nosebleeds, I’d take that as a victory right now.

Keep an eye on your kids, okay? Keep them home. You stay home too, unless you don’t have a choice.

The other upside: at least I don’t have to stumble out of the hospital half-dead from exhaustion, just to have to turn around five hours later to stumble back in! It’s cold comfort, but it’s almost nice to be able to just get up and head down the hall to start my shift. Can’t beat that commute, right? Though it kind of reminds me of those overnights I got stuck on when I was an intern…

Stay safe and healthy!

Love, R]

Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Official death toll: 41

Additional deaths by the end of the day: Crystal Davis (age 17), Cody Montero (age 15), Justin Ward (age 9), Graeson Willard (age 7), and Antoinette Golbreth (age 6).

Crystal Davis was another name that I did not know at the time, and now I regret never having been able to speak to her directly. Her text messages and phone recordings from around the time she grew ill were useful in constructing one possible pattern of transmission; I am sorry that her assistance was posthumous.

September 21 marked a drastic decline in the overall health of many of the patients. I mentioned earlier the DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation) that began to present back on September 15. At the time, the most dangerous symptom (leading to the highest direct mortality) was the depletion of clotting factors, leading to uncontrolled bleeding. One of the other drastic symptoms now seemed to very suddenly escalate: necrosis.

While this had always been a concern, and had led to problems already, multiple patients on September 21 were found to have developed necrosis literally overnight. In a few cases, it was “minor,” only affecting fingers or toes, but in others it impacted entire limbs which were suddenly dying, increasing chances for sepsis and threatening to spread. Regrettably, the process was not painless.

Multiple treatments were attempted to remove the clots that were creating the tissue death, but in most cases, these treatments were unsuccessful or were started too late.

Six patients were rushed into surgery over the course of the day for emergency amputation, even understanding that any procedure—much less a major and traumatic surgery—would be complicated by the fact that the patients were all at severe risk of bleeding to death due to their depleted clotting factors. That was in fact responsible for two of the fatalities on this day—Cody Montero and Justin Ward—though both deaths are counted among those caused by this illness, not surgery complications.

This was the date of the second email I received. I was not given any responses to these emails, if there were any, just the original ones from “rshell,” who I presume (but cannot confirm) to be Rebecca Shelredge, a nurse at Alchemilla Hospital.

[From: rshell@hmail.com, sent September 21, 2016 at 10:42 am
To: [redacted]
Subject: Everything worse…

Everything here has gotten worse. The illness, everything. I know you don’t want the worst details, but… you can fill it in yourself when I say “necrosis.” Something we knew was a risk, and had been trying to prevent! It’s awful, so many patients affected, and it hurts all of them so badly. The doctors are recommending amputation in most cases, and it’s just too much to bear. So many of them are just children, not even out of high school.

I’ve been doing my best, but it’s so hard to look at them, knowing that there’s so little we can do to help. We’ve been dosing them with painkillers, because that’s about the only thing we can do, but it’s not enough.

And now I’m terrified that it’s going to be me all too soon. And then I think that it’s selfish of me to be worrying about myself and it maybe happening to me, when it’s really happening to them right now.

I’m glad you and your kids are doing okay. Keep it that way, all right? I promise not to just send you gross-out emails like this one. It’s just a lot to deal with…

Love, R]

Thursday, September 22, 2016
Official death toll: 45

Deaths by the end of the day: John Dorset (age 53), Michaela Tomlin (age 13), Drew Scott (age 12), and Kenneth Kim (age 7).

John Dorset was the third and final member of the original search and rescue party that found the island where Kyle and Andrew disappeared. That could still be coincidental; many people have died. Still, I present it as potential evidence for my theory.

A new policy on the part of Alchemilla Hospital was announced internally. I was looped in, courtesy of Dr. Molgren, though this announcement was not released outside of the hospital.

This new policy was that all bodies should be removed from the premises as immediately as possible. The decision was made by Alma Shorey, the head nurse, working along with several of the lead doctors and administrators.

Alchemilla has its own morgue in the basement of the hospital, though it’s a relatively small chamber. Full autopsies were performed on the earlier victims, in hopes of discovering something that had escaped the tests done on the living, though of course nothing was found.

As the death toll climbed higher, full autopsies weren’t conducted on all of the victims, largely due to time and manpower constraints; instead the bodies were simply stored. As the morgue in Alchemilla is a positive temperature facility, this is not ideal for the long-term. In some of the earlier cases, bodies had been released to relatives to make funeral arrangements. Post-quarantine, remains were only being released if the family was planning on cremation.

The ostensible reasoning behind the order to remove the bodies was that they represented a concentrated infection risk, and should be stored in an off-site secure facility.

The announcement was made after the decision was finalized, offering no opportunity for comment or discussion.

The next of the forwarded emails I received outlines my own personal skepticism quite well.

[From: rshell@hmail.com, sent September 22, 2016 at 4:27 pm
To: [redacted]
Subject: It just doesn’t make sense

The hospital has made a decision to remove the bodies of the dead. I don’t know where they’re taking them; they just said they’re removing them. But why?

Alchemilla has its own morgue. I know it’s got to be getting crowded in that room (you couldn’t pay me enough to go check in person, but it’s not a big room.) But even so, what good does moving them do?

We know the disease is infectious, but almost everyone in this building is infected! Or at least has been exposed… so why would we worry about one source of infection among all the others in the hospital?

More to the point, what good is a quarantine if we aren’t even quarantining something stated to be our biggest concern? This is where the infection risks are supposed to be, so why remove them? It sounds like wherever they’re taking the bodies must be set up as a quarantine as well, but why? The more quarantine areas there are, the bigger the likelihood that one gets breached, right? And they are by definition breaching the quarantine of Alchemilla every time they move a body! They are literally removing something they declare is infectious material (that sounds callous, but you know what I mean) from the quarantine and into the town, if only en route to another quarantine.

I just don’t get it.

Part of me is thinking that it’s some conspiracy, like they’re taking the bodies to do testing for the government. The plague was used as biological warfare hundreds and hundreds of years ago, where bodies would be thrown over the walls into cities under siege.

…And then I realize that paranoia is one of the symptoms of the psychological aspects of the disease and I start worrying more about that.

I’ve been having nightmares.

I know I have to be reaching. It just makes no sense. Why would they care about moving the bodies?

R]

Friday, September 23, 2016
Official death toll: 47

Additional deaths by the end of the day: Leroy Olsen (age 37) and Dennis Green (age 14).

The first of my formal interviews was scheduled for the morning of September 23. I was given the opportunity to speak to Melissa Merrick, the widow of Paul Merrick and mother of Maddison Merrick, also deceased.

[Anna Garcia’s interview with Melissa Merrick, transcribed from tape recording:

Anna Garcia: My name is Anna Garcia, epidemiologist for the Maine Department of Health, and it is September 23rd, 2016. I am interviewing Melissa Merrick. For the record, will you please state your name?

Melissa Merrick: Yes. My name is Melissa Merrick.

AG: Thank you. You volunteered for this interview to help with my investigation into the currently unidentified illness in Silent Hill. I thank you for that.

MM: It killed both my husband and my daughter. I have to give any information that might keep it from doing more.

AG: I am very sorry for your loss. I see from our records that both your husband, Paul, and your daughter, Maddison, passed away on September 20th, just a few days ago. When had they started to show symptoms of being ill?

MM: Paul got sick first. It was… almost a month ago. He’d been working, and then said he thought he was getting a cold. I was out of town for a mid-week conference, so that must have been… around the 24th or 25th of August. He got sicker really quickly, it seemed like. I returned on Saturday morning, which would have been the 27th. He was very sick. I wanted him to stay in bed. Maddie…

[Melissa takes a moment to compose herself.]

MM: Maddie got sick the day after that, on Sunday. It was a couple days before school started, and it seemed like just a cold. It didn’t slow her down any. After school started it seemed like everyone had it, and no one really thought much of it.

AG: Did you or they seek any medical treatment at that time?

MM: No. Like I said, we thought it was just a cold. Paul’s was worse… he was so sick I wanted him to go to the doctor. But he hated doctors, said he’d rather just wait it out. Maddie didn’t seem nearly that sick until later.

AG: So Paul got sick first. Did he have any idea where he caught it?

MM: Probably his job. He didn’t mention a specific person he caught it from or anything, but the previous two days had been very stressful.

AG: Stressful?

MM: Paul did search and rescue work. They were searching for two young men who disappeared on the lake. He spent the days before he got sick in a boat out on the water, with the wind and all. Paul was the one leading the team that actually found the boys’ campsite, though no bodies. It really got to him.

AG: I can imagine. You think the stress had something to do with him getting sick?

MM: Maybe. He took this case harder than most. Search and rescue… you don’t always wind up with a happy ending, and Paul knew that. But the case just really bothered him. He was having nightmares about it. The fact that they never found the boys didn’t help.

AG: Nightmares?

MM: Fever dreams, probably. Thinking he was lost out on the island on the lake, things like that. Very vivid. They—his nightmares—just got worse and worse the whole time, until…

[Melissa pauses to compose herself again.]

AG: Had Paul been traveling before that? Or had he been visiting with anyone who had been abroad? Anything like that?

MM: No, not that I’m aware of. Going out onto the lake was the only break I knew of in his routine, and that was just for work.

AG: So Paul and Maddison were both symptomatic for some time. When did they first seek medical assistance?

MM: September 10th. Just like everyone else, it seemed like. The story was the same with everyone; cold symptoms that suddenly got worse and worse on the 9th, like really bad chickenpox or something. Then everyone seemed to go to the hospital at the same time for it.

AG: And they both remained in the hospital after that?

MM: Yes. They left our house on September 10th and neither of them ever returned.

AG: I’m so sorry. But you’ve been physically healthy? No symptoms?

MM: I spent every minute I could with my little girl and my husband. I almost wish I’d been sick so that I wouldn’t be here now, without them. But I haven’t had so much as a sniffle. And I shared everything with them: same food, went the same places, slept in the same bed as Paul, everything.

AG: Again, I am so sorry for your loss. Is there anything you would like to add?

MM: No, thank you. I just want you to figure out what this is, and how to save everyone still sick.

AG: We will try to do that, ma’am. Thank you for your time.]

While I conducted some other similar interviews with some other survivors, this interview was the one that yielded the most potentially interesting information. Paul was the first person that I could find record of getting sick, and by a margin of nearly a week. Most families reported the first symptoms appearing within the first few days of September, not in August.

I decided to look into Melissa’s suggestion that Paul could have gotten sick at work, and researched the search and rescue operation that he had been on prior to his illness. I thought to ask his team members for additional information, seeing if they recalled anyone who’d been sick before then.

I quickly discovered that both of his teammates had also succumbed to the illness, one of them just yesterday. They too had been early cases, hospitalized on the 11th. The police officer who had been in charge of the investigation had also died a few days before Paul.

I was able to speak to Elise Arnell’s boyfriend, Carl Johnston, who told me that Elise had also had to stop assisting the search and rescue the day after they found the island, also due to coming down with a cold. She’d also blamed it on the damp, chilly air and being outside for two days, but had never gotten better, until she was hospitalized.

None of John Dorset’s family answered my requests for an interview, but one of the officers who had worked with Officer Daniels on the case mentioned that Mr. Dorset was also absent on the third day of searching and beyond.

While not definitive, I found this to be an interesting coincidence at the very least. Both Paul and Elise were the earliest cases of the illness I have yet found, and they had been together the day before they both grew ill.

Between September 23 and September 24 I did as much research as I could, using the Toluca Times and conversations with some of the Silent Hill Police Department’s officers. I opened this report with my findings, as I truly believe this is one of the most valuable avenues to explore regarding the emergence of the illness.

I once again thank the SHPD for their willingness to work with me and give me information about the case in question.

Saturday, September 24, 2016
Official death toll: 49

Additional deaths by the end of the day: Jordan Mickelsen (age 13) and Kevin Darnsborough (age 8).

This was the date of the last of the forwarded emails that I received, and also the event that made them so disturbing to read.

[From rshell@hmail.com, sent September 24, 2016 at 8:17am
To: [redacted]
Subject: Paranoid or not

I don’t think I’m paranoid. I tried to ignore it yesterday. I tried.

But I just couldn’t let it go. I… I know I said you couldn’t pay me enough, but I went down to the basement. I’m not even sure why, I just wanted to see if the morgue was in bad shape like they’d said. It was stupid to do, anyway. But it’s not like I had to worry about an infection risk. I knew two people had died yesterday, but I figured they probably hadn’t moved the bodies out of Alchemilla yet.

And… there was a little group of the other nurses already there. They were praying, I guess, but it was just wrong. I’ve seen nurses pray for and with their patients, and I’ve even done it before, even though I’m not generally a praying woman. But this wasn’t like any prayer I’ve ever heard. They were mentioning “angels”, but none of the angels had names that I’ve heard before. Something to do with the angels that were supposed to protect the town.

The way I’m describing it just doesn’t describe what was wrong with it. It felt so sinister. It was the kind of thing that made me think of the thing when we were kids, back when there was that cult in the town? The one that detective uncovered? There was that huge scandal before they were disbanded…

I was trying to decide what to do, and they started talking about the bodies down there, how it meant two more had been chosen the previous day. Chosen, like it was a good thing! They said something about God “choosing” more. It terrified me. Like they were… selecting people to die!

After that, I just ran. Maybe I am just paranoid. I’ve had so many nightmares… about drowning, or being trapped in the hospital in the dark as it’s decaying…

But I think I’m going to speak to one of the doctors. If it’s paranoia, nothing will come of it. But if some of the nurses are doing something to determine who dies—withholding care? sabotaging treatment?—then I have to tell someone.

Besides just you.

You stay safe, keep your kids safe, and I hope I’ll see you soon.

All my love, R]

This becomes an extremely disturbing—nearly incriminating—statement, because later that day Rebecca Shelredge was killed, allegedly in a patient altercation very much like the one that killed Lillian Harris.

Rebecca was supposed to be doing routine care on one of the patients, under the constraints that had been put in place after Lillian Harris was killed, including that she was supposed to be with a second nurse at all times.

Instead, she allegedly went alone into a room containing one of the sickest patients. There is an incident report from Alchemilla that describes what happened:

[Employee Incident Report

Reported by: Alma Shorey
Role: Head Nurse
Date of Report: 09/24/16
Incident No.: 002792

INCIDENT INFORMATION

Employee Name/Role: Rebecca Shelredge, nurse
Date and Time of Incident: 09/24/16, 13:41
Location: Alchemilla Hospital, floor 3 isolation room
Additional Persons Involved: Corey Benson, patient; Alma Shorey, head nurse
Witnesses: none

Incident Description, Including Preceding Events:
Nurse Shelredge was performing routine care for third floor patients, and was supposed to be accompanied. For unknown reasons, she decided to perform her tasks on her own, including going into the isolation room that Mr. Benson was being kept in. He was being kept in isolation because his illness is especially severe in its progression, including psychological symptoms such as delusions and paranoia.
Benson was apparently not properly restrained (or was perhaps freed by Nurse Shelredge for unknown reasons) and somehow wound up with a pair of scissors. He must have gotten a hold of Nurse Shelredge, and he stabbed her in the chest with the scissors.
I (Head Nurse Alma Shorey) was making rounds of the rooms, and heard the commotion. I found Rebecca on the floor, covered in blood, with the patient collapsed on his bed. I attempted to render aid to Nurse Shelredge, but she had already passed. I confined Benson properly to his bed and radioed for help.
Mr. Benson does not confess to the murder: he insists that there was another nurse responsible (perhaps he even blames me), but this is clearly a product of his delusions. The blood on my scrubs was due to my attempts to render aid.
Unfortunately the security cameras seem to have been malfunctioning at the time, and no recording exists of what happened between Nurse Shelredge and the patient. We may never know exactly what enabled him to act as he did.

Employee Explanation of Events:
n/a

Resulting Action:
Review of requirements for nurses to never go alone into patient rooms, review of security camera system to ensure no further errors occur.]

There is no evidence of foul play, but the fact that Rebecca (if the emails I was given are both genuine and from her) had intended to object to something just prior to her death… It’s concerning. She did not name any names, but it’s possible that some of the other nurses should be looked into, if they may have done something to put Rebecca in harm's way.

The incident is not related specifically to the topic of this report, per se, however if Rebecca was correct about a religious group treating the illness as somehow a positive, that could impact transmission in ways we have not considered.

This is also the second time that the security cameras have failed to record something that would have potentially clarified an ultimately fatal incident.

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