“It could be highly contagious, but we don’t know that. “
I think it’s moderately contagious myself. Get in a cab with a vector for 20 minutes, you get it. Shake hands with the same guy, probably not. Talk for a minute with the guy, probably not. Receive a hard drive made it China, definitely not. If it was highly contagious, it would have already hit everyone. Problem is, of course, who and where are the vectors.
As to the ship - I don’t know enough about their HVAC systems to know if they’re zoned. Perhaps it was just one zone that reached the 17%...just don’t know. Hopefully they’ve thought of studying that.
As to the death rate from the ship - 1%, of course, is still very high if it gets widespread (but not a big problem if contained) - but those people were lucky, they got the ICU beds. Obviously people later on won’t be so lucky.
I’m mostly worried about the millions of people who have flown in to the US with virtually no limits or screening (other than China, and that was only partial). Things may get very interesting when big-time testing starts here. Who knows, stocks may even drop a bit!
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