Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Possible sign of lax quarantine protocols, three Japanese health officials who helped in the quarantine checks on the ship were also infected


From AP:
TOKYO (AP) — As an extraordinary two-week quarantine of a cruise ship ends Wednesday in Japan, many scientists say it was a failed experiment: The ship seemed to become an incubator for a new virus instead of an isolation facility meant to prevent the worsening of an outbreak. 
The viral illness that emerged last last year in central China has sickened tens of thousands of people, but the 542 cases confirmed among the ship’s 3,711 original passengers and crew are the most anywhere outside of China. 
The Diamond Princess cruise ship is also the only place where health officials have seen the disease spread easily among people beyond China. 
The question is: Why? The Japanese government has repeatedly defended the effectiveness of the quarantine. But some experts suggest it may have been less than rigorous. 
In a possible sign of lax protocols, three Japanese health officials who helped conduct the quarantine checks on the ship were also infected. 
“There are sometimes environments in which disease can spread in a more efficient way,” said Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s health emergencies program. Ryan said cruise ships in particular were known to occasionally accelerate spread.
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2 comments:

thelastenglishprince said...

Perhaps they were not lax? That is the scary scenario.

https://thelastenglishprince.wordpress.com/2020/02/19/covid-19-the-clock-boy-news-management-team-is-hard-at-work-on-the-narrative/

Anonymous said...

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2/18 #coronavirus

To control the real number of the infected, CCP tightened internet, ordered all provinces to manage 0 growth of the infected. Meanwhile, it was reported that 20 mobile incinerators were shipped to Wuhan. Each incinerator will burn 5 tons of dead bodies
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https://twitter.com/htommy998/status/1230017577444732930