re: #181 Hecuba’s daughter

My go-to coronavirus site for the past couple weeksyesterday added “Diamond Princess” to its list of “countries” that have experienced infections, and retitled the “country” classification as “country, other”. — which makes sense since this is the largest outbreak outside of China and it cannot be tied to a country. Given the number of people infected and the daily increase, the plague ship is clearly circulating the disease among those who are uninfected; it would not be surprising if everyone on board eventually contracts the disease if staff and passengers remain confined there. The experts need to develop a different approach to handling communicable diseases, other than confinement on a vessel that is not equipped to handle a quarantine.

Still only 5 deaths among the 1000 cases outside of China — but will have to wait a couple weeks to how this progresses.

Public health officials are being pretty candid about the failure of the quarantine on the Diamond Princess. Having the crew distribute prepared meals was one likely vector. Also, letting the interior cabin residents walk out onto the deck for 90 minutes a day was understandable but couldn’t have helped.