I’d be considering jumping ship right about now. Yikes.
Posting again for anyone who missed it:
CDC contact tells American couple on the ship “its very likely that the virus is actually in the air”
https://twitter.com/ZJasko/status/1225947496888852480
“There are some people in Louisiana who traveled from China during the course of this outbreak, said Kanter. They are being monitored and are in contact with the Department of Health.
“We have zero patients under investigation in Louisiana. We’ve had a lot of clinicians reach out with suspected cases, but none of them met the bar,” said Kanter.
With so few people coming in from the outbreak’s epicenter, increased travel to and from New Orleans during Carnival is not currently a concern for officials.”
Comment: it is crazy that clinicians are reaching out and are being told their case dose not “meet the bar” for a test. Obviously many of these doctors see something unusual enough to ask in the first place. Absent a test I hope the doctors know to get a CT scan and what to look for as was being done in China absent tests. Btw, someone in Japan said the tests are expensive, so I wonder if that is part of the holdback.
For Pete’s sake can you imagine that? This should hit the cruise industry really hard. Who in their right mind would sign up for one right now?
I’d tape up my vents and crack my door if I had a balcony!