Japan says 88 more virus cases confirmed on quarantined ship

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese health authorities said Tuesday they have confirmed 88 more cases of the new virus on a quarantined cruise ship near Tokyo.

The new cases bring the total on the Diamond Princess to 542.

The number is by far the largest outside China.

The Japanese government has repeatedly defended the effectiveness of the quarantine and bristled against criticism that the ship became a virus incubator instead of a quarantine facility.



In this Feb. 15, 2020, photo, a man talks on the phone next to a South Korean flag hanging in the balcony of his cabin on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, near Tokyo. The 14-day quarantine for those on the ship is scheduled to end Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)


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[Sancho]

1. Piling a bunch of people together with a contagious disease is dumb...

on the surface.

[ret5hd]

2. You mean like a hospital or sanitarium?

[Sancho]

3. Exactly...hospitals are also well known for spreading infections...

[MosheFeingold]

13. So, what's your better idea?

Send them all to separate movie theaters?

[Chemisse]

4. It seems as though they should have separated the sick from the healthy early on.

And tried to prevent them ALL from getting sick.

On the plus side, we now have a controlled experiment from which to extract reliable data.

[lostnfound]

9. By the time they are aware that they are sick, it's too late.

It wasn’t a real quarantine for one third of the people. The crew.

[MosheFeingold]

14. The incumbation period

Is the problem with that approach. For 14 days (or possibly 21), you are perfectly fine, but contagious.

Quarantines have lots of problems, but for 4000 years of recorded history, it's the best we have.

If you come up with a better idea, it will change human history.

[Chemisse]

15. Quarantine both - but separately.

That would at least reduce the amount of virus that the healthy people have to ward off on a daily basis.

[Cal Carpenter]

5. Ugh what a nightmare

Can't even imagine being on that ship

[denem]

6. One in four passengers tested are COVID-19 positive.

Of those, 40% are asymptomatic.

[lostnfound]

10. Most interesting data.

Screenings won’t stop the spread.

[mpcamb]

16. Are the asymptomatics vectors? Got to think so.

[lostnfound]

11. Where did you get that data? Nt

[Chemisse]

12. I wonder how they were chosen.

One would think they were tested because they had symptoms, but it says some were asymptomatic.

I'd love to look at the source of this.

[rockfordfile]

7. So it's the entire ship

[soryang]

8. Japan infectious disease specialist describes his day on Diamond Princess