How To Write A Summary Chapter 19

Chapter 19 deal with the facts and stories that had to do with the influenza virus. Currently, the virus has spread to the cities and Wilmer Krusen has concluded that it is the same virus found in the naval stations and cantonments. Almost every single hospital bed has been filled in the city and people are dying left and right. With so many people sick and in need of attention nurses and doctors are basically overwhelmed and leaving and going home. Medicine at the time of the virus was not very good anyways. Mary Tullidge, who was the daughter of Dr. George Tillidge, died within twenty-four hours of her first symptoms. Alice Wolowitz, a student nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital, began her shift in the morning, felt sick, and was dead twelve hours …show more content…
It was astonishing. Paul Lewis was one of the people trying to find a cure for the virus. He spent endless hours in his laboratory. He felt peace in his laboratory and with the death toll rising, he worked even harder. Dudley Perkins was a person who died of the virus and was under forty. Neatly two-thirds of the people who died were under forty years old. When a person who die a crepe was put on the door to signal a death. Clifford Adams recalls how every door had a crepe and how there was always another door. Gravediggers were also an issue. People were dying so fast that hey could not be put in the ground as fast. Grave diggers themselves became sick with the virus so there was almost no one to bury the bodies, so they just piled up. Coffins were also an issue. Coffins could not be made by the amount of demand that there was that people were actually stealing coffins and soon there were no coffins to even steal. Newspapers were not telling the whole truth when it came to the virus. They tried to sound it off a bit because they wanted to sound positive during this time. Dr. Raymond Leopold reassured that the newspaper was not telling the whole truth and that a terrible plague has come about