The tale of two cruise ships carrying thousands of tourists from around the world shows the extreme challenge of containing coronavirus.
The extreme logistical challenge of containing coronavirus is perhaps best seen in the experience of two cruise ships, the Diamond Princess and the Westerdam, carrying thousands of tourists from around the world.
“Amid assurances that the ship was disease free, hundreds of elated passengers disembarked,” the New York Times. “Some went sightseeing, visiting beaches and restaurants and getting massages. Others traveled on to destinations around the world. One, however, did not make it much farther than the thermal scanners at the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia. The passenger, an American, was stopped on Saturday, and later tested positive for the coronavirus.
“We anticipated glitches, but I have to tell you I didn’t anticipate one of this magnitude,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told the Times. “This could be a turning point.” And not the one everyone was hoping for. The Cambodian government insisted it had screened disembarking passengers using protocols from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Over the weekend, the U.S. began the evacuating American passengers onboard the Diamond Princess in order to bring them back to the U.S. Of the several hundred passengers that left the ship, 14 who were tested and deemed asymptomatic by American health officials and thus “fit to fly,” laterpositive for the virus. The negative tests were conducted 2-3 days before the passengers boarded a charter flight back to the U.S.
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