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time-travel-epidemiology
There is a tension between the scientific understanding of the epidemic's origin and the suspicion that the virus came through time travel, affecting decisions about containment.
1 chapter across 1 book
Doomsday Book (1992)Connie Willis
BOOK III
In this chapter, Dunworthy struggles to manage a rapidly worsening influenza epidemic among detainees and hospital staff, facing shortages of supplies, communication breakdowns, and bureaucratic obstacles. Despite his efforts to contact technicians and fishing guides to trace the outbreak's source, he encounters dead ends and growing despair. Mary, overwhelmed and exhausted, confronts the institutional resistance to opening the time travel net early, while the epidemic's toll mounts with numerous deaths and incapacitated caregivers.