"I informed Amelia that we would be converting two patient rooms into field-style hospital wards. We can fit eight beds into each room, ten if we crowd them. It's small numbers to start with, but it's optimistic." Tess had drawn a diagram on the whiteboard at the back of the room.

"What about the surgery rooms? They're much larger, they could hold more beds." Carrie pointed to one of the rooms that Tess had drawn up.

"Those are our last-ditch efforts. At least one ...