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[TRAFFIC NOISE]

[PEOPLE TALKING ON RADIO]

[CATS MEOWING]

[MAN TALKING ON RADIO]

[CAT SCREAMS]

[EXCLAIMS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[CAT MEOWS MENACINGLY]

NURSE: Doctor Cheng, he's burning up with fever.

CHENG: And his lungs are full of fluids.

[CHOKING]

[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

More and more patients, and still no word from the Health Bureau.

Don't even know how long we'll have to wait.

Maybe I should cancel my trip?

[THERMOMETER BEEPS]

[COUGHING]

WOMAN: They cannot start their wedding without us, you know.

It's imperative we have these products to come in and...

I'll meet you at the restaurant.

The one right by the...

By the lake, downtown, you know?

Yeah. You can't miss it. It's called Liberty.

That's it, yeah. Liberty.Hold please, thank you.

I forgot my ticket. Sorry, go ahead.

I've got it. Please wait.

Thank you.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

Thank you.

Great hotel, huh?I know.

I won a contest. That's why I'm staying here.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Wait.

I don't think I should go.

What are you talking about?

No.

[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Bye-bye.

[PANTING]

What is it?

I made a... A terrible mistake.

[FLIGHT LANDING]

Did you bring me anything?

You're too old for presents.

[KWAN LAUGHING]

Let's get you home, Mom.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[COUGHING]

You okay, Mom?I'm okay.

[UPBEAT TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Look who's back.

[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Very good. I had a good time.

Hi, nice to see you.

[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[BABY CRYING]

Hello.

Wow, he's gotten so big. Look at him.

[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[COUGHING]

Mom, maybe you should get some rest.

[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

CHENG: Listen, please, listen.

You need to calm down, Doctor Cheng.Mask. Put it on.

You have to.

MEDIC: Everyone, just move back, please.

KWAN: It's her heart. She has a bad heart.

[WOMAN SOBBING]

[SOLDIERS SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[AMBULANCE SIRENS WAILING]

I can't believe I'm gonna miss another Curling tournament.

What is it with men and Curling?

My ex-husband was obsessed. It's gotta be the slowest sport on earth.

It's an excuse to smoke and drink. Really.

And you wonder why you keep winding up in here.

Mr. Polaski.

Surprise, surprise! He's in AFIB again.

Truth is, my heart only goes crazy like this when I see Amy.

You know the routine. Keep you overnight,

let the cardiologist take a look.

Probably, send you home in the morning.Thanks, Doc.

All right.

To the Pent House, Amy, and step on it.

I think my ex-husband used to say that too.

[COUGHING]

Mr. Kwan.I need to go home.

My mother just died. My wife just had a baby.

My family needs me.

Sir, you need to stay calm.

ROYCE: Mr. Kwan, we gonna be testing you for TB.

We also need to know if you went out of the country in the last few months.

No, please, I need to get home.

ROYCE: You have to stay, Mr. Kwan.

Your oxygen level is very low.

Mr. Kwan. You got to keep your oxygen mask on.

Hello, Mr. Douglas. How are you today?

Much better, thanks.

Looks like we found you a bed in another hospital.

You should be on your way in the morning.

Will you let my wife know?

Sure. Of course. We have your numbers?

I think so.Okay.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

This is Mr. Kwan's x-ray at admission.

And look at this repeat film.

Dramatic deterioration.

It's only been twelve hours.

Well, he's on antibiotics. Is there anything else we can do for him?

I don't know how much we can do at this point.

I expect we'll get a positive in his TB test.

Just make him comfortable till we know for sure.

Okay.

[BELL TOLLING]

[AMBULANCE SIRENS WAILING]

Now all our cases in Singapore seem to originate

from this contact point here in Hong Kong.

He might turn out to be a super spreader.

But we still don't even know what exactly this atypical pneumonia is.

Franz, have you got any test results back yet?

Sputum viral, blood cultures, TB, all negative.

All of them negative?All we got.

We don't have any samples from China yet.

They won't let our guys into Guangdong Province.

Our doctor in Vietnam is dying.

Doctor Obani.It's the same atypical pneumonia.

Obani hasn't been in Hong Kong. What was the contact point?

We don't know yet.

Plus, in the last 72 hours, we've got 19 Vietnamese healthcare workers

who are showing the same symptoms.

Is there any reason why we shouldn't issue a global alert?

[COUGHING]

AMY: What you gonna do when you break outta this joint?

I'm gonna go curling.You what?

I'm going curling.You're kidding me!

I'm joking. I'm going drinking.

Oh! This guy. How do you deal with this guy?

Mr. Douglas, North Haven hospital, right?Bye, Amy.

Bye, Mr. Douglas. Bye, Mr. Polaski.

Take care.

You guys gotta make sure he stays off the smokes, the booze and the ice.

It won't be easy.Yeah, I bet it won't.

See you later. Take care. Bye.

Stay safe.

[UPBEAT TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Thanks. You too.

Hey, you're off.Yeah.

Great.You want me to stay?

No. We're covered. Go home. Get some sleep.

You get your morning coffee yet?

I'm on my way now, thanks.

What?So help me.

If he doesn't ask you out soon, I'll do it for him.

I'm not going out with anybody, I'd have to have my kids meet him.

Coward.Got that right.

See you later.Bye.

Hey, mom.MOM: Hey, Rosie.

Hey.

Latte extra foam?

Yup.

Can I get your opinion on something?

Sure.

We're thinking of expanding our menu.

You're gonna make someone a very fine wife one day, Ed.

That an offer?No.

Every woman needs a wife. Someone to do the laundry, pick up the kids,

yell at the ex-husband.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

When they told me their Mom came back from Hong Kong,

the bells went off.

Mr. Kwan is almost dead and the whole family,

they're all very ill.

The symptoms are so similar to the reports I've been reading about

in the Chinese papers.

Atypical Pneumonia, fever, coughs.

Mrs. Kwan had a terrible cough before she died.

But the death certificate said it was a heart attack.

Guess what, they sometimes put that when they don't know what it is.

So it could have been a pneumonia.

And Hong Kong is only a two hour drive from Guanchan.

People go back and forth all the time.

You are not gonna leave me alone until I say yes, are you?

Fine. I'll run it by Royce.

Thank you.

There are a lot of different etiologies for pneumonia.

Yeah, but this is a strange one.

Mr. Kwan isn't HIV positive, he doesn't have cancer,

he's way too young to be this sick.

Every year, we get a few odd cases of viral pneumonia,

they always seem to recover. We never know the source.

Let's get all his results back before we jump to conclusions.

The results are back. They are all negative.

Negative?

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[COUGHING]

[CANNON FIRES]

NEWS ANCHOR: The US and the British believe

they already have the right to use force

under existing UN resolutions

but if a new one is put to a vote and if it fails,

the British fear they'll be fighting on shaky legal ground.

They're pushing for war.

There's gonna be a war.

[COUGHING]

Okay, that's it. I'm calling Bill to take you to the hospital.

Don't bother him. I'm fine.

Honey, if you're not better by tomorrow,

we're going in first thing in the morning.

[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

ROYCE: Charging.

Clear!

300.

Charging.

Clear!

I don't believe this.

360. Charging.

Oh, come on. Come on!

[FLATLINING]

Do you wanna call it?

How does a man die of pneumonia at 42?

Sorry to bother you but I...

Remember what I told you about that Chinese atypical pneumonia

and how Mr. Kwan has all the symptoms?

Had. He's dead.

I just read it, an advisory sent in by the WHO,

that Chinese flu has spread to Hong Kong.

Mrs. Kwan was in Hong Kong.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[PATIENT COUGHING]

We've gotta call Toronto Public health.

Whatever this thing is,

it's here.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[AMBULANCE SIRENS PLAYING]

I've never seen patients deteriorate so quickly.

They go from a dry cough to needing full respiratory support in 48 hours.

You saw yourself in the X-ray, the infiltrates are everywhere.

It's a white out.Both lungs, not just one.

We've got five suspected cases in the family.

Five?

Two more came in since I called you guys in Public Health.

A neighbor of the Kwans is sick as well.

And they all have the atypical pneumonia symptoms?

Yeah.

Doesn't seem to have spread beyond that.

Not yet anyway.

[POLASKI COUGHING]

Both lungs. How could you have pneumonia in both lungs?

Well, at least, we know what it is.

Let's get the antibiotics and get you home.

Tell your mother it's just the flu.

You know how she can get.

[COUGHING]

Look it's spreading all over South East Asia. We gotta brand this thing.

Aren't severe and acute a little redundant?

Well, yes, but without the "S", then we've got ARS.

ARS.

Precisely.

So we've got about three seconds

to come up with something better than SARS.

Two and one.

Right, all those in favor of SARS, please raise your hands.

SARS it is.

And we have 50 more cases.

Indonesia, The Philippines, Thailand, Singapore.

And more bad news.

There's a new country to add to the list.

The US?

Canada.

Toronto, to be exact.

There's no else with the experience of a doctor and a researcher.

This isn't a one man job.

I know and you will have my support and the support of my staff.

I wanted a top microbiologist, maybe a virologist as well.

I hope we can afford to do all this.

You can't afford not to do this.

I don't have an extra dime in my budget, Jeremy.

Now maybe the province.

They're gonna tell you the same damn thing.

How can you expect me to take this on without any support?

People are dying here and we have no idea what is killing them.

Now, I will do what I can but either way, we need you on this.

This mysterious respiratory illness, the WHO is calling SARS,

severe acute respiratory syndrome,

appears to have caused two deaths at Toronto Memorial Hospital.

In response, we at Toronto Public Health are setting up a hotline

for anyone who has any questions

or feel they might have symptoms.

I will now give it over to Dr. Jeremy Neville, chief microbiologist

at Metro Civic Hospital.

Thanks, Laura.

According to early investigations by the WHO,

this atypical pneumonia appears to be caused by a virus.

Right now, that's all the world's experts know.

We're trying to treat and control an outbreak.

We don't know the enemy we're fighting.

We don't know what this virus is,

we don't know how it is transmitted,

and in that vein, I have a question for the deputy minister.

Is the Government willing to fund the team of experts

necessary to combat this outbreak?

The Province is behind this effort 100%.

Does that mean the Province will be funding Dr. Neville's team?

Of course.

Of course, we will.

REPORTER: Dr. Neville...

The country is swept up in a SARS scare,

a simple sneeze or cough is enough to make jittery Canadians

take a step back and wonder who's next.

Today, five new suspected cases were reported in Toronto, all of them children.

some less than 2 years old.

BOY: Your turn. Mom.

It's your turn.

Oh... um... Do you have any sixes?

Nope. Go fish.

CTV'S medical specialist Avis Favaro has been following the SARS story from the start.

Do you have any eights?

Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children has revealed they have 5 children who may have SARS,

the youngest patients yet in Canada.

Yeah, well, it's already spread through the hospitals in Vietnam and Hong Kong.

What I wanna know is what we can do

to ensure that the people who work here are safe.

Only half a dozen people are sick, Amy.

No. Half a dozen people are very sick. And two are dead.

There's no diagnostic data and nobody's responding to medication.

Both Eileen and Joanne have the same symptoms as Mr. Kwan.

The nurses are concerned.So am I! We're all concerned.

But Toronto Public Health is on it.

Ontario Health is on it.

And the city's chief microbiologist is on it.

These people are experts in infection control.

I have to believe they'll tell us if protocols need to be changed.

Well, thanks to Rosie, we know now what we're dealing with.

The W.H.0 guidelines of symptoms are clear, fever above 38 Celsius,

one or more of the following respiratory symptoms including cough,

shortness of breath, difficulty breathing

and one or more of the following,

recent history to areas reporting SARS

or close contact with a person who has been diagnosed with SARS.

What about Mr. Kwan?

We've all been coughed on by him, spat on, thrown up on.

Yeah, look at Eileen and Joanne.

Well, we still don't know if that's SARS or just the flu.

They're in isolation.

We have to be patient.

You mean, we have to be a patient.

[ALL GIGGLING]

AMY: One more thing.

I want all those working with the Kwan family to be extra careful

Wear gloves and masks, just to be safe.

And monitor your own temperatures.

We're not taking any extra chances here.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[COUGHING]

MRS. POLASKI: Somebody!

ROSIE: It's okay.

MRS. POLASKI: He can't breathe.

Maggie, we need a gurney here, and 02!

He has a history of A-fib

and his rate's over 160. He's direct to cardiology.

Can I help you?Yeah.

My dad, Jack Polaski, came in here a few hours ago with my mom, he was...

He was having trouble breathing.

Polaski, yes. He's in the ward.

So he's all right?I'll just...

Give me a second to take care of this, and I'll call up.

Okay.

Rogelio Dagdag?

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Rogelio Dagdag?

[YAWNING]

Hi. I'm Doctor Royce.

Come on in.

He's got a couple of tubes in him, so don't be shocked.

Should we wear masks? The nurse said we should wear masks.

Oh, that won't be necessary.

Your father's pneumonia is exacerbated by his heart problem.

Looks worse than it is.

Hey, Dad.

We've got him on antibiotics that cover a range of pneumonias common to people his age.

[PANTING AND COUGHING]

I'm okay.

Okay. Deep breaths. Deep breaths.

[RASPY BREATHING]

Dr. Royce said it's fatigue and stress combined with the flu.

Bed rest, lots of fluids, don't get dehydrated.

And make sure you eat well.

You should feel better in a few days.Thank you.

[COUGHING]

[HEAVY BREATHING]

Where is my wife?

She went home with your son a few hours ago.

[BEEPING]

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Jesus.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Call Royce! His sats are tanking, he's cyanotic!

We need gloves and masks! STAT!

[BEEPING SPEED INCREASES]

I'm in. Bag him.

Good air entry bilaterally.

His sats are coming back up.

Good work.

Doctor Royce.

I don't think this is flu or heart failure,

and it isn't regular pneumonia.

You think it's SARS, don't you?

Well, let's both pray you're wrong.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

You were right. Mr. Polaski was here March 7th,

same night as Tom Kwan.

We've got to figure out how many people came through that night.

About 250 people came through that day.

This is where Tom Kwan and Polaski were?

Yeah. March 7th.

Dr. Neville, what about infection control?

Just take the usual precautions.

Gloves, gowns, masks. I'll let you know more as soon as I know.

[SIGHS]

Okay! We have to track down everybody who came through the ER that night,

everybody who had contact with the Kwans.

Nobody... and I mean nobody, can be allowed through the cracks.

[CHURCH BELLS TOLLING]

[COUGHING]

[COUGHING]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Okay, these numbers, they're preliminary, but if we take...

Hong Kong as an example,

the RO there is about three. Now if we extrapolate...

I'm sorry, Doctor. "RO"?

Rate of spread. For each person that gets SARS,

they pass it on to three others.

And then so on, and so on, and so on.

Which means what exactly?

Well, let's say each of these stick men represents 10,000 people.

With unchecked spread you have got a potential death toll that could run into the millions.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

And that is why we have to stop this thing at its source.

Okay, this is an unseen, unknown enemy. Now what we have to do

is we have to surround the disease, okay?

This is like laying siege to a city here.

So basically starve it to death?

Exactly.

You're giving us a worst case scenario here, right?

Until we have concrete scientific data, we won't know.

I've got three microbiologists arriving today, but the lab space at the hospital,

it's minimal.You can use the Provincial Lab.

And the staff?Absolutely.

Now I send the WHO daily updates.

Is there something I can tell them to get them off our back?

Look, Laura, I'm gonna leave outbreak investigation

to your people at Toronto Public Health.

Yeah, sure...we'll take care of contact tracing, patient history,

we'll map out the course of the disease for you.

And when you find a new case, you have to impose a quarantine.

WILSON: Whoa! Wait a minute.LAURA: A quarantine?

There has not been a quarantine in this province in 60 years.

We haven't had a problem like this in sixty years.

How can we make people stay away from work and their family?

We simply cannot come up with the resources to implement a quarantine.

Okay. Then you got a choice.

You either find the resources, or you start opening temporary morgues.

That's a bit overly dramatic, don't you think?

You better hope so.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Dr. Lam in Hong Kong says they just had a patient showing symptoms.

He came into contact with a SARS-carrier nine days ago.

Nine days ago?

And he just started showing symptoms?

Yup, so you'd better tell Toronto, and everyone else,

that ten days or don't even bother.

Okay, it is chlamydia.

Now don't freak out, it's actually pretty common.

But you have to make sure you finish all your antibiotics.

But I'm gonna have to ask you

to give me a list of all your sexual contacts.

I know, but as a public health nurse, it's my job

to make sure this thing doesn't spread any further.

It's a drag, but it's the law.

So what if I don't? You're going to send me to STD jail?

No, but if you don't, I'm going to have to go to your school

I'm going to have to start asking questions... and use your name.

You'd do that?

I have to track this down. It's my job.

Kevin is such a dickweed.

And what's this dickweed's last name?

[CELL PHONE RINGING]

Hold on a sec.

Hello, Laura.

What type of problem?

So there are quite a few challenges here.

We have a huge number of people to track down

and then the work really begins.

We need to explain to each one of them what quarantine involves,

so that's keeping a safe distance between all family members,

wearing a mask at all times and so on.

They all need to be called, on the phone, every day,

and their temperature has to be monitored.

If any of them develop any symptoms,

they need to be brought into the hospital immediately.

So these are patients who were maybe never officially checked in,

people who came into emergency and either drove a friend

or came in, waited and left.

There could be hundreds here.

ROB: They just keep passing it on to whoever they meet.

NURSE: Hi, Mr. Douglas.

They have a bed in the dialysis unit over at North Haven.

The ambulance can take you there in the morning.

We need to find every single person

who has come in contact with this virus and lock them down.

Any questions?

A lot of these people may not want to be found.

Illegals, new immigrants that are afraid of the government. You got...

And that's why I'm giving you the tough ones.

Okay, let's get to work.

Right now.

Okay, thanks.

There's a new case reported at North Haven hospital.

So far they can't find any connection to Toronto Memorial.

There could be someone out there who's asymptomatic,

someone who doesn't even know they're sick.

Here's the... lab.

Where is everybody?

Can I help you?

Dr. Neville from Metro Civic, Microbiology.

We're the SARS research team.

Where's all the staff?

They let the last of the guys go about a year ago.

Cutbacks.

So there's no staff at all?

You're looking at it.Yeah, great.

So, always make sure that this nose clamp is tight.

-You okay? -Yeah

And the bottom of the mask is tucked well underneath the chin.

Thank you.Thank you.

Now I'm sorry to have to tell you this,

but Eileen and Joanne both appear to have SARS.

[ALL GASPING AND MURMURING]

There are people are coming and going in here.

Shouldn't they shut down the hospital?

I have suggested that.

They tell me it's a Toronto Public Health decision,

which brings me to another issue which you may not be thrilled about.

Until SARS is contained,

Ontario Health doesn't want Memorial nurses to work at any other hospitals.

I only work here one day a week.

I can't survive on that. How can I support my family on that?

Without rotation, we'll be understaffed.

I'll do my best to make sure you all get more shifts.

So if we want to work more, we have to work here,

with SARS?

Where's the Bishop file?I left it with Kathy.

I told you I needed it.

Hello, hi, Mrs. Bishop, this is Toronto Public Health.

I'm calling to find out your husband's latest temperature.

No, I'm sorry.

No no, it's okay. Thank you very much.

Could someone just maybe mention it to me when somebody dies!

Can you cross Bishop's name off the list, please?

Hey, how's it going?

We still have not got the files from Ontario Health.

We have no interhospital computer system,

I'm down to flow charts, jiffy markers and post-its.

Oh, I just finished calling a woman

and asking her for her dead husband's temperature.

Just do the best that you can, okay, Rob?

Look, has anyone found a source for the outbreak at North Haven?

I've actually just found it.

Kevin Douglas. He was in the bed beside Tom Kwan

at Toronto Memorial, and was transferred on March the 8th.

Ugh! We're knee deep in an epidemic,

and they're still transferring patients

like it's rush hour on the subway.

Well, at least that's one mystery solved.

What's that make us, one for fifty?

Well, now that you have some down time,

there were four Filipinos admitted with SARS

to different hospitals in the past 48 hours.

I need you guys to find their contact point.

I'm on it.

Asshole!

We were in the goddamn Intensive Care

with a bunch of dying SARS patients,

and you told us not to wear masks!

I didn't wear one, either.

I didn't know. I'm sorry.

My dad is dead.

My mother is sick because of this flu.

Your mother has SARS?And my sister.

And I went home to my girlfriend's that night.

She works in a school, so...

Maybe we should have worn masks, huh?

I'm so sorry.

You're sorry?

[SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYING]

My mother is 74 years old.

She has asthma, she...

[GROANS]

I know this is the last thing you want hear right now.

You have to be at home.

You're in quarantine.

I know it's not your week to have Lindsay and Scotty

but I am more than a little nervous about coming home to them.

It's a tough week for us.

Look, I can leave them with my mom,

but I think they'd be better off with their dad.

I'm sorry. It's just...

Jane really likes us to keep our routine.

Well, your girlfriend is 35.

She'll learn to adjust.Thirty-four.

I know. I just...

This SARS thing can't be that serious.

You know how the media is.

Dan? I work in a hospital where people are dying,

from being in the same room as a SARS patient.

Do you really want our kids exposed to that?

How long do we have to wear these?

Until SARS is over.

And how long with that be?

Maybe by the time you're through med school.

Very funny.

Are you taking enough precautions at work?

Of course we are. Amy's got us doubling everything.

I just don't want to put you guys at risk.

And do I eat that soup?

Do we share the one bathroom?

Thank you, Doctor.

Go back to your studies.

Rosie.

Do you have to work with the SARS patients?

Mom.

I'm a nurse.

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Not surprisingly, tourism industry officials

are gearing their damage control efforts toward the high profile convention business.

Retail sales are down by as much as thirty percent.

The CN Tower had 12,000 cancellations

reducing its usual April business by 15%.

Hey, Ed.Hi.

The usual?Anything stiffer?

Double shot latte.Perfect.

...American Association for Cancer Research Convention earlier this month

cost the city twenty million dollars.

It's unfortunate, but I do feel there is a climate of fear

in this city at this particular time.

Fear is spreading much more quickly than this disease.

Do Torontonians need to take precautions?

Sure, of course they do.

Is there a reason to be afraid? Absolutely not.

The spread of this disease does appear to be slowing.

Slowing? Where's he getting his information?

How are you holding up?

I'm okay. You? How's business?

Empty most days.

Nobody wants to be around the hospital. Except for me, of course.

How're the kids?

Fine.

You getting much time off with this thing?

You know, Ed, I'm going to come right back to that.

Philip.

Can I sit?

Are you okay?

The Polaskis. They asked me if they should wear masks

I said no.

You didn't know.

There was no way to know.

A second year nurse knew, Amy.

You tried to tell me.

I was just...

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

It just seemed so unlikely.

I've been walking into that hospital

into that Emergency room, for thirty years,

you get so you think you know what to expect.

No one could have predicted this.

Okay, you got everything?

Yeah, I'm fine.

You're okay with the backpack?

Do you wanna give this to your dad?

Okay.I'll take that.

Okay.

You know what, you guys are gonna have a really good time.

Mom, I don't want you to go.

Chinese people are dying from that.

Then I'll be okay, right?

We'll have lots of fun, Scotty.

You have to be brave, okay?

We all have to be brave.

But we're going to be home together again real soon, I promise.

Okay.

Are you scared, Mom?

No.

I just have to work real hard over the next little while, that's all.

I'm gonna call you every night

and help you with your homework, okay?

Okay.

Okay, guys, you ready?

Bye, Mom. Love you.Love you too.

Bye, mom.You wanna say hi to Jane?

Hi.

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

NEWSCASTER: First Toronto Memorial and now North Haven have been

forced to close their doors to the public.

Over 15 nurses have been struck down

in the line of duty by this mysterious disease

which continues to take its toll on this once active city.

Can I ask what happened?

My father-in-law's in there for a hip replacement.

And they won't let us in to see him.

My wife's been trying to see if there's any way to make contact.

But then they said they'd moved all the patients out,

but no sign of my father-in-law,

which means that he's...

Which means he's probably been exposed.

Pandemonium at Toronto Memorial tonight.

People locked in. People locked out,

and people being put in quarantine as the world watches.

We've officially been designated a SARS facility.

They're moving all other ambulatory patients out

leaving us with SARS or suspected SARS patients.

As you may know, we're in a volunteer work situation now.

The choice to work here is entirely yours.

The hospital is doing everything it can

to provide us with the most up-to-date protective gear.

But even so, there's a risk.

A grave risk.

But we're nurses, right?

A lot of us chose this profession

because we wanted the opportunity to to help people in times of need.

This is one of those times.

These people need us.

Now for practical reasons,

I need to know how many of you

are planning on showing up for work tomorrow.

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

I just got off the phone with Toronto Health,

they're not getting access to patient files either.

I'm not surprised.

So what if we know this thing replicates every few hours in a test tube,

doesn't tell us anything about what's going on in the human body.

We're talking about basic outbreak investigation.

Is the disease spread by droplets or is it airborne?

How long after contact is the person infectious?

Are they infectious before they have symptoms?

Are they infectious after the symptoms resolve? We don't know.

We're not going to know unless we have access to patient files.

Patient files are private.

Okay then, then patients will die privately. Only they won't.

They're going to spread the disease to dozens and dozens of other people.

Doctor, I'm doing what I can.

We can't fight this thing unless we know what it is.

And we can't rush head-long into something that might be against the law.

I'm not talking about posting your Aunt Edna's cholestoral scores online, okay?

I'm talking about file sharing between health care professionals.

You just need the leadership to make that call.

The Province's lawyers are looking into it. That's the best I can do.

Well, you know what, your best...

your best is not much to write home about.

[UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]

[COUGHING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

It's all on paper.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

ROB: I can't find them.

[PEOPLE SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[MAN COUGHING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[PEOPLE CLAMORING]

Hi.Hi. Good morning.

Hello.Good morning, Amy.

All right.

Have you been to Hong Kong in the past few weeks?

No.

Have you been to any other hospital in the vicinity in the past two weeks?

No.

Do you have any body aches, or severe...

Yes, one, but it's private.

[LAUGHING]

AMY: What's that?

Egg, I think.

Some of our neighbors aren't very happy

that we've had to close the local emergency room.

Why didn't they tell me?

Isn't it somebody's job to tell me these things?

What's the problem?I've been wearing this mask for three days,

and now they say they don't work unless you adjust the nose clips.

If you'd been reading the protocols, you'd know how to do this correctly.

I'm not a nurse.

What?I work in administration.

They just sent me down here to take the temperatures.

I don't even know if I'm doing that right.

[SIGHS]

Atlanta called.

Everything points to this being a corona virus.

A corona virus.

That's what the WHO is saying.

It's unbelievable.Why is it?

Well, that's the virus that causes the common cold.

How'd it get so deadly?

I don't know, it must've crossed the species barrier, probably cat or dog to human.

What does this mean in terms of controlling it?

You know why there's no cure to the common cold?

The corona virus loves to mutate.

It replicates fast and picks up pieces of other viruses.

With constant change, it's almost impossible to control.

Yeah, I mean imagine if it

merged with something as contagious as small pox.

You got the deadliness of SARS with the RO of small pox, you know what you got?

Plague city.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[DOORBELL RINGS]

[MAN COUGHING]

Can I help you?Mr. Stanton,

I'm Rob Connell from Public Health.

I already told you on the phone.

I'm feeling fine.

That's certainly good news, sir.

Unfortunately, there are several people that are

in contact with the same index patient you have,

and now they're dead. So I need you to do me a favor.

Turn around, go back inside and please put this on.

I'd love to, but I've got a meeting in half an hour.

So I need you to get off my porch.

Do you really think you're gonna stop me?

Probably not but...

They can.

We're living in a fascist state, you know?

Well if we were, my job would be a whole lot easier.

That's right, Scotty.

But the rule is I before E except after C, right?

So words like believe, grieve,

relieve are IE.

And words like receive and deceive are EI.

[KNOCKING]

Well, most rules are stupid

but this rule happens to be less stupid than most.

Sorry. Problems with Mr. Bradshaw.

I'll call you back, Scotty, okay?

No, I will...He's coding.

I have to go. Just kiss your sister for me.

Just do it.

[WINDCHIMES TINKLING]

Good morning, Father Louis.Good morning.

Rogelio?

Are you feeling better?

[ROGELIO PANTING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Rogelio?

[CHIMES TINKLING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[PATIENT COUGHING]

Opthalmascope please?

How's the patient?

The old ones can't survive it.

The younger ones have a lot more fight.

I've noticed something interesting though.

Just before quite a few of the patients have died,

Bradshaw, Mrs. Polaski, for instance,

their symptoms ease up and then, bang,

they crash and we can't get them back.

I've been noticing that too.

So you're saying when they start to feel better,

that's when we should start to worry?

Frankly, I'd start now and save time.

NURSE: Here doctor.

How are you holding up?

Would you excuse me? I just need to take care of something.

Rosie, that's not the right mask.

You need the N95.I know. Mine was stolen.

Stolen?I had two.

Both gone from my bag.

And with the shortage, I doubled these instead.

Well that's not good enough. I'm gonna find you another N95.

Son of a...

I can't believe they did it.Did what?

They're cutting the lighting down to half power.

Why?I don't know, the place is pretty empty.

Powers-that-be want to save a couple of bucks on the electric bills.

So we get mood lighting.

If they print patient charts in Braille, we'll be okay.

You look exhausted.

Go home.

You can't work 16 hours without getting sloppy. I'll take over.

You were here when I arrived.

See? Now you're hallucinating.

Go home.

Thanks, Amy.

[BELL RINGING]

What's the student's name?

I can't give you that information, it's a privacy issue.

All I can say is that she's been exposed to the SARS virus,

so I need you to close down this school for, like, ten days.

We're in the middle of the term.

We're in the middle of an epidemic.

You know, sir, I've got lots to do, lots of people to track down,

so you either close down the school or I'm gonna call your superintendent.

Have you any idea what kind of headache this is going to cause?

Look, compared to a handful of dead eleventh graders,

it's not much of a headache at all.

Well,when would we have to close it down by?

I'm leaving in 30 seconds.

So any time before that would be good, all right? Thank you very much!

Do you have any body aches, or severe headaches?

No.

Hey. You're here early.Hi.

Well, you know what they say,

early bird gets the something or other.

Morning, Rosie.Morning.

Good morning, Amy.

Have you been to Hong Kong?

No, no, yes, no, yes.

See you out there.See you.

Wait, Rosie?What?

You're 38.5.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

The x-rays show some consolidation in the lungs.

How are you?

My cough is definitely getting worse.

We're going to want to take a few blood tests,

keep you here for the time being.

What about my mom and sister?

Oh, God.

How am I gonna tell them?

I can call them first or go see them.

Just say the word.

ROB: Before he died, Rogelio was at some sort of church event?

Yes, the CAF annual retreat. I called the ambulance from there.

On the 29th.

And how many people attended?

Maybe 25 or 30.

Twenty-five.

That's a lot of people I have to track down.

All right, Father, what I need...

I need you to make a list for me.

As a matter of fact, what other church events did he attend?

Well yes, he was a regular. He came to mass every week.

But when was the last time you saw him?

Let me see.

He was here, at mass, Sunday before the retreat.

Here at mass?

How many people we talking about here?

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

Five-hundred spreaders?

At least 500 spreaders.

This is out of our control now. I mean, it's in the community.

This church was in the middle of Forest Hill!

Forest Hill?Yeah.

My nanny goes to a church in Forest Hill.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

What do you mean I can't see her?

We're taking really good care of her.

But she's very contagious.

She's my daughter.

Yes, but she has SARS.

I told her not to work there anymore.

She's young and she's strong. She's gonna pull through this.

She's gonna be okay, Mom.

AMY: She's just getting settled in now.

She's going to call you tonight.

The other thing is...

Because of your exposure to Rosie,

you have to be in quarantine for ten days.

So I've brought these masks for you.

And I've written my cell phone number down.

So if you need anything, if I can help in any way, please call me.

No.

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[SOBBING]

We're talking thousands of new cases and then to quarantine them...

We simply don't have the resources to track and monitor that many people.

I will pass along your concerns to the Minister

These are not concerns. These are facts.

We need to hold a press conference.

Radio, TV, whatever, but we need to warn the Filipino community,

not to mention the rest of this city.

A panic-filled press release is exactly what we have been trying to avoid.

When was the last new case?

Eight days ago.Eight days.

That's a long time.

Two more days and it'll be one full quarantine cycle.

You can't possibly think this thing is over.

There are other factors to be considered here.

This city has already lost millions of dollars.

We're rolling back taxes on hotels and restaurants, and yet,

the downtown area still looks like a ghost town.

The last thing we need is to get people panicking again.

So, before we unleash a witch hunt against the Filipino community,

we need to make sure that going public

is the best thing for the health of the city.

We cannot sacrifice lives for economics here!

Have you ever seen a person choke to death because their lungs don't work anymore?

Have you ever seen a family on the street because their livelihood is gone?

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIGHS]

Does Dr. Neville know about this?

Not yet.I'll tell him.

And I will call the Minister.With the facts.

Yes, with the facts.

I will let you know when we're ready to go to the press with this.

[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]

Hmm, you're down a couple of degrees.

Sorry, I can barely hear you.

AMY: You're down a couple of degrees.

ROSIE: They got you triple bagging now?

Oh, well. You know how they are.

So is it true?

What?

Do nurses really make the worst patients?

No, that's doctors.

Nurses are perfect at everything,

didn't you get the memo?

I actually feel a little better.

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

AMY: That could be a good thing.

Ten different agencies

sending us ten different protocols.

The O.M.A., Public Health, Health Canada,

the Public Health Commission, the SARS Action Group.

Let's face it, nobody knows what the hell is going on,

so they're sending us new protocols every time

someone new gets sick.

They're trying to keep up with the way the virus is changing.

They're trying to cover their asses.

We have three negative pressure rooms

on a ward with 40 SARS patients.

We should be able to protect our staff from this.

Rosie, she shouldn't be sick.

No, she shouldn't.

[INAUDIBLE]

Wow.

Now I know what lepers feel like.

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Amy.

I'm really sorry.

It was the only way I could keep my last few customers happy.

Just put it down on the sidewalk,

and I'll come and get it.

On the house.

Thanks.

ROYCE: Thank you.

Look, I am asking you as a personal friend.

If you quit now, the team will fall apart.

This could turn into the plague of the 21st century

and we're dealing with a bunch of bureaucrats who are so scared of being sued,

that they won't let us look at patient files?

This is monumentally stupid!The Vancouver lab

is very close to mapping the genome. Brian, Brian.

I just really... I need your expertise on this.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

They're worried about a Filipino witch-hunt.

I'm worried about an epidemic!

Does Dr Neville know about this?

The Deputy Minister was supposed to tell him.

I don't know about you,

I'm not willing to have thousands of people's deaths on my conscience.

I have spoken to the Deputy Minister.

He spoke with the Minister.

And they refuse to go public right now.

Rob. Rob.

My hands are tied.

Yours aren't.

[COUGHING]

You okay?

It hurts when I breathe.

It hurts when I blink.

I'd cry but I bet that would hurt too.

That's why I like to keep my emotions nice and bottled up.

Amy?Mm-hmm?

Can you open that top drawer?

My nursing pin.

If anything happens to me, I want you to give it to my mother.

Hey, we are not going there, okay?

You're gonna pull through this.

Please. Take it.

Just in case.

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

NEWSCASTER: Prime Minister Jean Chretien made a point of having lunch

at a Chinese restaurant in Toronto,

lending his support to businesses that have been hurt by the SARS scare.

Since the outbreak, which began in China,

fewer people have been going to the restaurants

and shops of Chinatown.

...so the people can see we can have a lot of fun in a Chinese restaurant.

[ALL CHEERING]

That close, huh?

Okay. That's damn exciting.

No no, call me, I'll be up all night. I have a...

I have a press conference tomorrow

and I'd like to bring some good news.

[CLEARS THROAT]

Can I help you?Yes.

I'm Rob Connell, sir. I do tracking at Public Health.

I'm actually the guy who uncovered the exposure in the Filipino community.

Congratulations, you folks are doing great work.

I want to ask you about the press conference tomorrow.

Are you going to mention the CAF exposures?

Tell me your name again?Rob.

Rob, well, I'm sorry, Rob, but I'm...

not in the habit of releasing my remarks to the public before I actually make them.

Okay, well the problem is, sir, people at Public Health are a little worried

because...It's been ten days, Rob, where are the new cases?

There's at least 30 more suspected cases.

Yes, but there are no new confirmed cases.

We have to take things in balance,

economic issues vs public safety.

Let's put it this way.

You either mention this at the conference,

or I'm gonna do it myself.

Oh, and we're doing a very good job. Thank you very much.

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

Laura.

Laura.

Deputy Minister.

[PANTING] I got some good news for both of you.

The Vancouver lab has mapped the genetic code of the virus.

Well, that's great.Great?

You know what this means?

There's something you need to know before we go out there.

Why wasn't I told about this?

We only found out about it a couple of days ago.

You knew about this?

The main thing is he's going to the press with it now.

This is a goddamn disaster.

Let's just go. We are already five minutes late.

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

WILSON: Thank you for coming.

We're happy to report there has not been

a new confirmed case in eleven days.

Unfortunately, during that same period,

upwards of 500 people may have been exposed to the virus.

Doctor! What are you doing about this?

WOMAN: Doctor Neville, who are the five hundred people?

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

All stops have to come out now.

We have a tiny window of opportunity to contain this.

Come on, Dr. Neville, be straight with us,

hasn't that window already closed?

I'm sorry. Right now, you have as much information as I do.

The World Health Organization already says it isn't happy with our airport screening procedure.

How will Geneva respond to this?

Have to ask the Deputy Minister.

I'm sure it was in his daily report.

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

While many have refused to quarantine themselves,

the mass exposure has resulted in 31 possible infections

and now threatens to spread severe acute respiratory syndrome

further afield in the community,

just as public health workers had hoped

the worst was finally behind them.

Hi. It's Amy.

I was just calling to see how the kids are.

Oh...

I... um...

Listen, I just wanted to thank you and Dan for having them for so long.

I know it isn't what we planned.

I'm happy to hear that.

Um...

When they get back, just...

Just tell them that I miss them.

Okay. Thanks. Bye.

[SNORING]

Royce?

Royce!

[LOUD SNORING]

Code Blue!Get the cart, STAT!

[LAUGHING]

Call your wife. Remember her?

What was her name again?

Evidently, we no longer receive calls and updates from Toronto.

The New York Times reports, "500 members of a church group had been exposed

"to the disease March 28

"and may have passed it on to others"

Has anybody heard about this directly from Toronto?

No, I know I haven't.

It was just four days ago.

It says, "twenty-nine probable and suspected cases."

I don't believe this.

Vietnam gets SARS under control.

But Toronto doesn't even bother to pick up the goddamned phone.

Right. How are we going to respond?

Well, we're looking bad on this,

racist even, just putting travel bans on Asian countries.

Are you suggesting we put a travel ban on Toronto?

We're the World Health Organization, Toronto is not taking us seriously.

Paul!

We didn't even do that in the Congo when Ebola was raging there, come on!

We really have to do something about this one.

NEWSCASTER: In shocking news tonight,

the World Health Organization has just announced

they will impose a travel ban on the City of Toronto.

This is the first time such an advisory has been issued in 55 years,

and at a time when Toronto residents were just starting to get back to normal.

Our decision to issue the advisory was based on several factors including

the number of new cases that could result from this recent exposure

as well as the number of cases that we've seen exported from Canada to other countries.

NEWSCASTER 2: We are now going live

for reaction from Toronto Mayor, Mel Lastman.

MEL: I'm shocked that the medical evidence before us

does not support this advisory.

And I'm told,

they have never issued an advisory like this before in their history.

In fact, I don't even know,

and nobody here even knows if they've ever been here.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

We do not yet fully know the implications of SARS on Ontario's economy.

NEWSCASTER: There is an enormous price tag already attached to SARS.

The World Health Organization estimates the global cost so far

is 30 billion dollars.

And that's world wide, remember.

On American Airwaves, Ontario's Health Minister

was trying to do some damage control.

NEWSCASTER: Still, it's another troubling development

in the story of this new disease

which now has some 129 suspect or probable cases in Canada

in six provinces.

It is now clear Toronto is a long way away

from winning its battle against SARS.

The most serious situation just east of the city

where tonight, one thousand people are in quarantine.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

They were talking about the WHO

and their ban on travel to Toronto

and the fact that they're in Geneva. The Mayor...

It's so embarrassing because...

I don't think he has the faintest idea where Geneva is!

[LAUGHING]

The man is not a Rhodes scholar.

[COUGHING]

Rosie?

She needs to be intubated! Now!

[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Come on.

Oh, come on!

There's not been a new case of SARS in 15 days.

We are presently preparing a team to fly to Geneva to overturn this ban.

Toronto is a great city.

We have got this disease under control,

and we will not be manipulated by W.H.O. politics.

[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Okay, Rosie, let me intubate...

Bag her please.

Great.

[ROSIE BREATHING HEAVILY]

Okay.

That's it, Rosie.

Do you need medical assistance?No, it's my sister.

No one goes in or out but for hospital workers.

She's dying, okay? So give me a mask or whatever.

Ma'am, I'm sorry.My sister is dying!

I'm sorry.Please...

Let us...You can't go in.

OPERATOR: Okay, I'm connecting you. Go ahead.

I need to speak to my daughter.

Okay, she's right here.

Hi, Rosie. It's me

and mom.

I just...

We just...

I just...

I just wanted to say thank you for...

always pushing me and...

and getting me through school.

You're gonna pull through, okay?

I love you, my little girl.

We love you.

We love you.

Rosie.

Can you hear us?

[MONITOR FLATLINING]

Rosie...

Rosie...

She says she loves you.

Go ahead. She can still hear you.

Rosie, can you hear us?

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[SOBBING]

[SOBBING]

♪ Spend all your Time waiting ♪

Well, I think for the W.H.O., this may be more about politics

than anything else.

But there has been an ongoing problem with information exchange

during the crisis.

Uh... I myself was...

was not told about the exposure until yesterday.

♪ And it's hard at The end of the day

♪ I need some distraction

♪ Oh beautiful release

♪ Memory seeps From my veins

♪ Let me be empty

♪ And weightless and maybe

♪ I'll find some peace tonight

♪ In the arms of the angel

♪ Far away from here

♪ From this dark Cold hotel room ♪

This is Rosie's nursing pin.

She wanted you to have it.

♪ You are pulled From the wreckage

♪ Of your silent reverie

♪ You're in The Arms of the angel

♪ May you find

♪ Some comfort here

[SOULFUL PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]

NEWSCASTER: Government, industry and union officials are working

on a comprehensive economic recovery plan.

CTV News has learned that work is under way on the first part of that plan,

a marketing campaign, aimed at Toronto residents.

They'll be urged to phone friends and family

around the world with one simple message.

Come visit. Visit soon.

Dr Neville. Thank you for coming.

What's up? You made it sound important.

Please, sit down.

Well...

It's been more than one quarantine cycle since the last new case.

Seems that way.

You think we're over the hump?

Could be.

I'm just back from Geneva.

WHO ban,

a bit of politics, as you know.

But I think we've smoothed over any ruffled feathers.

Word is they intend to lift the ban in the next few hours.

Okay. What do you want from me?

Don't you think it's time to dial it down a bit?

Protocols alone are costing each hospital almost $100,000 a day.

Surgeries are still being delayed,

putting more lives at risk, and to the rest of the world,

we look like a plague city.

Come on, Doctor.

It's time to start publicizing a SARS-free Toronto,

but I need you on the side.

Okay... You... um...

You need to hear me on this, okay?

We dodged a bullet here.

This...

This was just a dress rehearsal

for something bigger and a whole lot worse.

All right? But next time... and there will be a next time,

we've got to be prepared.

So you want to sound the all clear?

That's okay, I'll go along with that.

Before I do,

you... you've got to convince me

that you have a plan to beat the next one.

[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]

New protocol.

They say we're back to normal.

[ALL CHEERING]

Anyone can remember what that is?

I remember in the staff room when we didn't have to wear all this stuff!

Somewhere in the back of my brain, I kinda remember that too.

I hope they're right about this.

DAN: I won't see you guys for a couple of weeks, okay?

Bye.

All right.Mommy!

You're so huge!

Oh!

AMY: I missed you.

You're so huge and heavy. Were you like this when I left? Little bears!

[POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYING]

[CLOSING MUSIC PLAYING]

[UPBEAT CLOSING MUSIC PLAYING]