Explain your thinking if you don’t mind.
It is an excellent learning experience of how not to do it next time.
“Explain your thinking if you don’t mind”
What we need to do to prevent community transmission after introduction of 10-100 cases into the US is unclear, because the epidemiology is very confusing. The extreme density of infections in Wuhan is not being reproduced elsewhere in China. We don’t understand this and we have to prevent a pandemic before we have full knowledge.
Even if everyone gets off the Diamond Princess tomorrow, there are 454 (and probably more) transmission events that have occurred under direct observation.
This will get us to an answer quicker than two months of fumbling around n Wuhan.
That’s why the Diamond Princess is important.