She watched Park and Patil bring a team together to rewrite the code of a disease forecasting model created at Johns Hopkins so that it ran much faster and incorporated lots of data about California—and how they did this she had not the faintest clue. She was strangely relieved to see that once you plugged in what she (and Carter) knew, or thought they knew, about the virus, the new computer model regurgitated the coming disaster they imagined. That view happened to be radically different from the official position of the CDC, the White House, and, for that matter, the state of California.
