March 9, 2099 -- Weekly Update ***Unclassified***
Further updates from Pittsburgh have given us a death toll that is, frankly, staggering. Reports of the UPMC Trauma center as a total loss probably brought to mind the image of a peacetime emergency room, a couple hundred doctors, nurses, and patients--awful enough in and of itself. But the actual damage was far worse, UPMC Presbyterian had shifted to a crisis footing. The first attack claimed the lives of 112 staff and nearly 600 patients. The second attack at Mercy Hospital was worse as the animated bodies from the morgue did their gruesome work outside the trauma center killing almost two hundred patients and staff on the wards for a death toll of almost 900. The attack at Children's Hospital turns out not to be deathless after all as two surgeons and a resident wounded in the first and third attack have now succumbed to their injuries.
Obviously the medical situation in Pittsburgh is at this point critical or even direction. Relief missions will be organized from several sources. As we are well supplied with doctors and very well defended I expect one of those missions to be ours. We will not be seeking volunteers for this mission per se, but if any of you have a personal connection to Pittsburgh and would like to go for that reason please mention it to Lt Mackay who is working on the mission profile and will consider requests. If you have some reason why you would be especially suited to Pittsburgh's needs please ask your commanding officer or sergeant to update your personnel jacket.
Suzanne Wood
Lt. Colonel
Cm Battalion 45
Commanding