In the lab at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
"Little Arnold, haven''t today''s sample results come out yet!" Robert derfield, the director of the laboratory, picked up the phone and said impatiently.
The commander-in-chief is going to hold a press conference this evening. As the director of the CDC, Robert durfield must attend and explain to the news media that this batch of evacuees have been properly protected.
This is the glory of the city on the top of the mountain!
"Not yet, Mr. Robert." there was bad news on the other side of the phone.
"Call and hurry, damn it, why should we evacuate the overseas Chinese? We should let them stay in Tianhe!" scolded Robert durfield.
"Yes, Mr. Robert."
After hanging up, Arnold Cruz on the other side of the phone lazily made a cup of coffee and smelled the smell of coffee. He called the evacuation department.
"CDC, inspection department, Arnold Cruz. Mr. Robert derfield asked when you can deliver the samples of suspected patients! We waited for three hours, damn it, three hours!"
"Doing it." the voice on the other side of the phone was also very impatient. "You don''t know how troublesome it is to evacuate overseas Chinese. There was a 6-year-old child clamoring to do his homework!
Are they brainwashed by Red China? Grow up happily. Isn''t it good to eat one dollar fried chicken? Why do they have to do their homework! "
"Hurry up and send the specimens. The press conference will be held soon. We don''t have time anymore." Arnold Cruz hung up with a bang.
After preliminary screening, four of these people were suspected cases.
Director Robert derfield attaches great importance to this, but Arnold knows that the director just talks casually. No matter what data he is given, he probably won''t look at it and will only talk nonsense to the camera.
Like the data given to him last time, he was wrong! God, how did such a stupid man become the director of the CDC?! Arnold was worried.
He also wants to speak at a press conference on the lawn outside the White House. He can tell the press release in the way of Rep. he must do better than director Robert durfield and commander in chief.
But it''s just a thought. Arnold is lazy daydreaming and doesn''t care about the specimens that will be delivered.
Also, what does the matter on the other side of the earth have to do with the city on the top of the mountain? In addition, although the virus can infect Caucasians, it can only cause symptoms like a cold.
This is a joke circulating in the CDC. Even White House staff said that the people on that side had finished the vaccine and were resistant to the new pneumonia virus and didn''t care at all.
It''s just a flu, just a flu.
Arnold Cruz smiled.
The newspaper news is right. The sanitary conditions in Red China are too poor to control even a small flu. It''s a joke that the commander even wants to withdraw overseas Chinese!
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"Damn CDC, they should really let their own staff collect samples and be responsible for isolation."
In the military base, the medical staff responsible for evacuating overseas Chinese complained.
Four suspected patients are really a headache. The commander is crazy. Why should we withdraw overseas Chinese and leave them in Tianhe?!
Different people complain the same.
Complaints are complaints, things have to be done. After all, the press conference is waiting for "rigorous" data, and there are suspected patients among the evacuees.
While scolding, while collecting samples and printing labels, the medical staff did all this absently.
What happened in Red China has nothing to do with yourself. Seize the time to send the specimens away. It''s really hard to work in protective clothing!
Just about to label, the lab phone rang again.
The staff scolded, stood up angrily and turned to answer the phone.
As he turned around, the labels got mixed up.
It was director Robert derfield of CDC who personally called to urge him to hurry up for inspection. The staff hung up angrily after communicating with him for a few words.
Back at his desk, he was stunned to see the labels mixed together.
He shrugged. It doesn''t matter to confuse. No one knows what happened. The staff didn''t care very much.
Although the work flow is recorded in detail in the work manual, it can be said to be meticulous and rigorous to the extreme.
But who cares? After these samples are sent to the CDC, they may be directly discarded and will not be tested at all.
The staff randomly labeled the samples and sent them away in boxes.
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After several twists and turns, the sample with the wrong label came to the CDC''s laboratory outside the isolation point.
Arnold wanted to get off work earlier. He didn''t care at all and did an inspection at will.
Everything is for the world to see. They have now returned to the United States. No one cares about these evacuees, don''t they?
Now the eyes of the whole world are on the White House, on the grand commander with special performance ideas. I don''t know whether the wind today will blow up his blond hair.
Under various circumstances, a transmission route that should not have appeared appears. The CDC, which has always regarded itself as rigorous and professional, is actually very chaotic and far less professional than they say.
On February 5, the United States found four suspected cases among Chinese evacuees.
Due to the wrong label on the submitted samples, three suspected patients were returned to the isolated air force base as non infected without examination.
One of the three suspected patients was positive.
In the air force base, the positive patients took oral antipyretic drugs and everything was normal. They took off their masks and talked and laughed with others.
This is a safe mountain city. Who will wear a mask.
The virus is spreading quietly.
As for who the virus has spread to, who is infected and who is the carrier, no one cares at all.
Under the flowers, the undercurrent surged.
Just like the CDC''s treatment of infectious diseases such as H1N1 in 2009, no one cares about the details. Even the death data are compiled casually. Those patients who die under the flu not only have no name, but also not even a number.
Moreover, the virus is only lethal to yellow people, which has been a consensus in American academia and politics.
The people who have returned to the United States from Tianhe City do not know what they are going through. It seems that very professional epidemic prevention measures are almost inexhaustible N95 masks. Everything is so beautiful.
As for soldiers patrolling with live guns and ammunition outside the military base, it is to protect their safety.
Patients with fever were given symptomatic treatment. Because of the CDC examination results, this is just a very common fever. They don''t even need to wear a mask.