CHAPTER 315: CHAPTER 315: ISOLATE THEM FIRST

Li Mei was also awakened, and drowsily asked, "What’s wrong?"

"There’s a situation at the hospital, I’m going to check it out. You get some more sleep." Bai Yu said calmly.

They were both medical professionals, and Li Mei was already accustomed to emergencies, so she just lightly nodded and continued to sleep.

At the hospital, Xiao Li hung up the phone and went to find Yue Wenwen and the others, instructed them to prepare protective measures, and directed the nurse to move the two children to the same ward.

Yang Wangcheng asked puzzled, "Why move them together?"

Xiao Li replied calmly, "For easier management, they have the same symptoms, just one is more severe, and one is lighter.

In addition, according to the later admitted child, half of their class has caught a cold, we have to be careful."

Yang Wangcheng frowned, "Are you suspecting..."

"Watch your words!" Xiao Li gave him a glance.

Yang Wangcheng immediately shut his mouth.

Bai Yu quickly arrived at the hospital, he lived not far away, and this time there were not many cars on the road, so he got there quickly without any traffic.

As soon as Bai Yu arrived, he immediately asked Xiao Li for the medical records of the two children. Looking at the records, Bai Yu frowned and said, "First run a test on these two children, being careful is never a mistake.

I’ll report the situation to the hospital leaders, and let them communicate with the school to investigate the specifics of this class."

Xiao Li nodded, "Okay, I’ll go run tests on these two patients first."

Bai Yu took the medical records and went to the office, Yue Wenwen saw Bai Yu leave and immediately wailed towards the sky, "Oh my God! I knew tonight wouldn’t be easy, but I never imagined it would be this bad!"

Beside him, Yang Wangcheng coolly brushed his nose and followed Xiao Li to do the sampling.

Bai Yu dialed a phone call, causing the hospital’s higher-ups to lose sleep as well, immediately contacting the school.

After the school received feedback from the hospital, they immediately called Fang Yuanlei’s class teacher to inquire about the situation, and upon learning that indeed more than half the students in her class were sick, even the principal felt uncertain.

After some deliberation, the school decided to arrange for other students not to return today, only notifying Fang Yuanlei’s class to come.

This decision directly led to phone calls waking up all the homeroom teachers at the school, and after emergency discussions, notices went out in every class’s parent notification group announcing today’s holiday.

Every teacher was internally fearful, but they still had to notify every student promptly!

At the hospital, daylight had long broken, and soon it would be time for the shift change, yet Xiao Li knew there was no way she could finish her work and go home today.

At the very least, she couldn’t go home until all the students from that class were tested.

Pulling out her phone, Xiao Li called Qin Xiao to explain the situation.

After listening, Qin Xiao said nothing, just hurried to the hospital after hanging up the call.

Upon arriving at the hospital, Qin Xiao didn’t rush out of the car, but waited for news.

Inside the hospital, the atmosphere in the respiratory department was a bit heavy, because after identifying Fang Yuanlei’s class, other teachers also reported having classmates with cold symptoms.

This season was not a common cold season, moreover, even at peak times, no school should have so many patients with colds.

Although the tests so far hadn’t detected any cases of the pneumonia from previous years, respiratory diseases could potentially include a new virus—who could say for certain!

Obviously, they hoped there wouldn’t be a new contagious disease, but they had to mentally prepare for the worst.

Upon learning there were situations in other classes, the school immediately adjusted, first testing Fang Yuanlei’s class, and then staggered arrangements, bringing each class in one by one for testing.

Parents of the students were uneasy upon being notified to come for testing, as they all remembered the events from a few years ago!

Despite their anxieties, most people cooperated with the school’s arrangement, arriving for testing on time.

A small number of non-compliant parents stayed home, unwilling to come, leaving the school with little choice.

After all, what they sought was big data, and one or two absences mattered little.

Should it really become a situation, those who don’t cooperate would still be notified to come together for isolation!

Time ticked away, test reports came out one by one, and the results for these children showed no issues.

Yet, despite the lack of issues with the tests, the symptoms among them remained similar.

To be safe, after communicating with parents, the school and hospital jointly decided to admit all symptomatic students into the hospital.

The hospital quickly cleared two floors of wards, converting them into temporary isolation wards, concentrating all these students for treatment.

Already admitted, Fang Yuanlei and his classmate Li Xiaofeng were transferred together.

During their transfer, Fang Yuanlei and his mother cooperated well, but Li Xiaofeng’s mother refused to cooperate.

Apparently, she heard that they were going to be isolated and made a fuss about wanting to be discharged!

The nurses were helpless, so Yue Wenwen hurried to find Xiao Li, who came over in protective gear and said, "Li Xiaofeng’s mother, let me tell you! Leaving the hospital isn’t your decision to make now. If you keep refusing the arrangements, we have the right to hand you over to law enforcement."

Xiao Li’s words were naturally to scare her—they wouldn’t actually do such a thing to a patient’s family—yet Li Xiaofeng’s mother was one to cave under pressure, and without firmness, she wouldn’t cooperate.

Upon hearing Xiao Li’s words, she quieted down, obediently cooperating with the nurses to transfer wards.

After transferring wards, the ward underwent thorough disinfection, as did the school.

This back-and-forth led to the news leaking out, and the internet erupted with all kinds of speculation!

Especially parents of other students at Siheli Primary School, upon learning that their school had taken over a hundred students to the hospital for isolation, panic spread.

School officials had no choice but to stand up and address various queries, accepting media interviews.

During the interviews, the Principal was candid, but a large number of self-media outlets still drove narratives—the Principal stated only that some students caught a viral cold, and to prevent campus transmission, they were gathered for treatment.

Regarding disinfection work, the Principal explained it was regular weekly procedure, not solely due to this incident.

Even though the Principal’s explanation was clear, online reports twisted this into various rumors, claiming unidentified pneumonia and mass campus transmission.

It’s all too easy to spread rumors, but hard to disprove them.

Only after police swiftly arrested two major rumormongers did things quiet down online.