The Bay Page #4

Someone needs to get me

to the hospital.

Woman:
I've never seen

anything like that.

(clapping)

Ooh, are you getting that?

Are you getting that?

He just vomited.

Are you getting that?

(spectators groaning)

Donna:
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my God.

It's okay... miss, cut

the cameras, please.

It's all right, Tiffany.

You're almost done, sweetheart.

Danny, where are you?

This is a lens cap?

- Am I in frame?

- Donna:
Mm.

Donna's voice:

This is Dr. Jack Abrams.

He was the head physician

in the emergency waiting room

at Atlantic Hospital.

He would actually end up

treating over 350 patients

over the course

of that day.

And he would die

later that night.

Abrams:
Could you take

off your shirt, please?

Just... can you... turn around

a little bit more?

I'm just gonna point

this out to the camera.

Operator:

CDC. Is this an emergency?

- Abrams:
Yes, it is.

- Are you a health professional?

- A doctor.

- Okay. Hold, please.

- CDC:
Emergency operations.

- Abrams:
Yeah, hi.

This is Dr. Jack Abrams

over at the Atlantic Hospital

- How can we help you today?

- We're in the middle of some kind of bacterial outbreak.

This is Dr. Williams

in Communicable Disease.

Uh, you believe you may

have a bacterial case?

Abrams:

Uh, not one. 30.

What?

I got 30 people

in the waiting room

- at my hospital right now.

- What are the symptoms?

The entire group has broken out

in blisters, boils, lesions...

- Where?

- Face, legs, neck, chest.

I got a woman whose entire

backside is covered in boils.

- All right. When did this begin?

- This morning.

Today.

What do

you think it is?

I have no idea

what it is.

I'm gonna walk you through a

list of associated symptoms.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm gonna ask you

a couple more questions.

You been around any

livestock? Agriculture?

- No.

- Farm animals?

You spend a lot of time

in the sun?

No, not really.

More than usual?

Less than usual? Same?

Not really.

You know, it hurts

What concerns me is we've had

a lot of people in today

who've had similar

symptoms to that.

Frankly, that's why

we're doing this.

If you wouldn't mind just

looking right into the lens

and saying your name?

- My name is Lamya Jezek.

- Abrams:
Great.

What am I supposed to say?

I'm gonna ask you

a couple questions.

Man:
I didn't know it was a big deal.

I'm just asking to go

through a drive-through.

Man #2:
You're insane.

You do this every day.

- Okay, Grandma. Okay.

- It's like clockwork.

I'm sorry. Grab the food, you're out.

That's why it's

a drive-through.

It's not a big deal.

Just go through.

Can you do it?

Donna's voice:

This is Officer Paul.

He's the one on the left.

He was actually the best man

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