“Here you go, Doctor,” said Leah. “Coffee and some biscuits. You look like you need them.”
“Thank you, Leah,” said Dav. “It wasn’t easy seeing Maria’s family say goodbye to her.”
“I know. It’s strange but it’s much harder when we only have one patient. When there were so many before, well, they started to blur into each other. Is it terrible that I felt that way?”
Dav shook his head. “I think that’s the only way anyone can cope when it’s that bad. Now, when we only have one person, we formed a much stronger bond.”
“It seems odd having no one in the isolation ward. It’s the first time I’ve seen it completely empty.”
Dav nodded. It was odd, but he was sure it wouldn’t stay that way. There had been no reports of new infections that day and the vaccine he’d developed should pro
