[Solved]: It is a Saturday evening on August 22, and you are…

It is a Saturday evening on August 22, and you are part of a team of epidemiologists who work at the local health department. You receive a notification that 8 of the 15 patients currently in an Emergency Department room at a Wisconsin community hospital have the same chief complaint of “stomach flu.” You call the hospital, and the charge nurse informs you that all of the patients are employees at a local company, and they were all triaged within the last few hours. You contemplate whether these cases are evidence for an epidemic in your community.