Chapter-17: Just A Number
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Prompt: Fifty-Four
Word Limit: 120
"Can you give us an estimate?" Bella presses.
The elderly nurse shrugs. "Counting the employees and their families, I'd say about fifty-four or fifty-five, maybe?"
Edward feels his nose itch from the scratchy mask the woman had insisted they put on before entering her house. "Ms. Cope, do you have any idea how it's spreading?"
"We still don't know for sure," she confesses. "One of my colleagues said it might be air-borne, but it's just a speculation."
"Is the hospital keeping track of the number of cases?"
"Only for the employees," she answers. "We don't know if anyone outside has been infected."
Her words send a shiver down Edward's spine. If it continues to spread, fifty-four would just be a number.
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