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THE Sirocco’s sick bay quarantine rooms were small but comfortable. They included a bed, interface, comms, restroom, and a small exchange and sterilization chamber set into the wall where the patient could receive meals and return the used receptacles. Medics and doctors passed through an air-sealed anteroom to take vitals and provide medical care as required.
Kes had been the one to insist on the installation of quarantine chambers, mindful of the pandemic that had put the final nail in the coffin of Earth civilization. Wilder hadn’t thought they would be necessary for the ship’s first mission. They would only be spending a short time on the planet, collecting what was needed to replenish life on Concordia. Who would be dumb enough to expose themselves to human viruses against
