Today is going to be a little bit different, Erin, because we are switching rules.

Ooh, I love a switcheroo.

So I know we've done this once before, but we are doing it again, which is we're

bringing back a story from history. And you're going to try to figure out what it is. You're

going to play me, except a much more informed me. All right. Well, I make no promises, but let's do it.

Okay. So let me paint a picture for you, okay?

It's February 9, 1994, 8.15 p.m.

Paramedics are rushed to a semi-conscious, 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez,

and she heads into the emergency room at Riverside General Hospital in California.

45 minutes later, Ramirez was dead.

And 27 out of the 37 ER staff were ill after being exposed to her body.

Some people becoming hospitalized in the following days.

Despite the autopsy and forensic investigation

that followed her death, there has been no conclusive answer for the toxic mystery.

And I'm supposed to solve it? Yep. That's it. Yep. All right. You know, it's only a mystery

that's been, you know, what at this point, 31 years old, gosh, yeah, this is fascinating because, yes, the story is about Gloria, but it's also about the people that got sick treating Gloria.

And I think that's something we've really talked about on the podcast yet as well is the being a hospital staff,

the burden, and the chance you might get exposed to something like this. So let's talk a little

bit about Gloria. Gloria Cecilia Ramirez was a 31-year-old mother of two, and she had been

diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer. And she was receiving palliative care at her home

on the night of February 9th. And this has been 1994, as we mentioned earlier, and she started

experiencing like the shortness of breath and a rapid heartbeat. Her boyfriend calls 911,

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