Unguarded Love by KaLyn Cooper

Author:KaLyn Cooper [Cooper, KaLyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KaLyn Cooper

Chapter 12

Nita sat at the dining room table, the large flat screen filled with boxes. In the upper left, a virologist from the CDC was ordering equipment to be sent to the clean room in Costa Rica. In the center at the top was the Chief of Internal Medicine at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He and Nita were currently working out estimated numbers of viable patients, best practices for treatment, and medications needed.

She glanced at the poor guy on the lower left who kept growing the list on the lower right. Tom Callahan had tasked him with the duty to find, buy, rent, or obtain by other means, everything she needed. Then, the Director of Logistics for the CIA had to get it to her immediately.

“Dr. Banks, I’d like to send down more researchers. Can your clean room handle more people?” the CDC doctor asked.

“It’s small,” Nita admitted, almost ready to turn down his offer. Then she remembered just how tired the team she’d rescued out of Nicaragua was becoming. Working against the clock, each researcher had pushed themselves to their physical limits. “But I think if we worked around the clock, changing shifts every six hours so everyone could eat and rest, we’d be able to expand the number of tests which should logically result in finding a cure faster. Please send fifteen more people.”

“You have accommodations for that many more or do I need to send tents?”

Nita had to withhold her laugh. With the resort’s location so close to the Nicaraguan border and the coup that had made worldwide news within hours, dozens of tourists had canceled their reservations at the resort next door. Fortunately, they’d been able to keep a lid on the Ebola epidemic.

When General Cortez closed the Nicaraguan borders, he told the international press that it was so his new government could assure tourists’ safety. It wasn’t a lie…exactly. There had been rumors about the former presidential guard reorganizing and mounting an attempt to free the president from his imprisonment.

The EMP had effectively silenced any communication from the old capital of Managua. The general had casually mentioned that many people were suffering from a midsummer influenza. It happened every year about this time according to his press secretary. Spin doctoring at its best.

If the world had any idea of the size of the Ebola epidemic Nicaragua was facing, tourism from the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula, north to Southern California, and south to the Panama Canal, would cease to exist. Most of those countries depended on the billions of dollars generated by foreigners adorning their ancient cities and spending their modern money. The entire Central American monetary system could collapse.

Nita got everyone on the screen to agree to the priority ranking of the list before she sent them back to work and shut down the videoconference.

How the hell had she become in charge of containing an epidemic? With the weight of the daunting job ahead, Nita folded her arms on the table and rested her head.

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