Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness.
The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.
Yeah I remember my first exposure was a post on reddit with like 3 hospital workers all in full hazmat suits rushing a bubble-covered gurney from one location to another in probably Dec of 19 and thinking that nothing good was going to come of that.