Jeremy Faust rushes through the hallways of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston on his way to see a patient who is having trouble breathing. It’s the start of his night shift, and the emergency department is buzzing with ambient sounds: the beeping of monitors, the rumbling of medical cart wheels, the squeaking soles of busy staff members’ feet. People on stretchers lined the hallways, some wincing in pain, others chatting with relatives.
On this Wednesday night in May, Faust is working a typically quiet shift as far as the emergency department is concerned. Still, he oversees a team of doctors, students and physician assistants who will care for more than 20 patients by the end of the night.
It’s no exaggeration to say that Faust likes to be busy. Minutes earlier, he had posted an article to the influential Substack newsletter Inside Medicine, which provides updates on major international news stories. An alert sent to about 85,000 newsletter subscribers announced his “scoop”: MV Hondius had 26 passengers on board., The hantavirus-infected cruise ship, which was anchored off the coast of Cape Verde at the time, disembarked much earlier than previously known, raising the possibility that it could spread the rare virus in the United States.
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