[lepton]

Even on the cooped up cruise ship there was nothing close to full infection or super high mortality.

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They were quarantined before anyone on the ship was showing symptoms, and the first victim wasn’t likely contagious for most of his time on the ship and had himself left the ship before showing symptoms. The quarantine was not perfect - as evidenced by the infection rate - but it was physical isolation for the vast majority, with limited but existent cross ventilation. The crew was also attempting to address the outbreak in the manner that they regularly successfully address outbreaks of the flu and other shipboard diseases.

About 60% of those infected are reported as not recovered yet, even all this time later.

You certainly do have a point, but it is rather more limited than it might appear at first glance.

It’ll be an interesting study, especially considering that as noted above the ship procedures were set up to deal with outbreaks of various diseases and are generally successful. It could be a lot of infection, or it could be surprisingly little when considering the actual conditions and events.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I heard an interview with one of the passengers this morning. He caught it, but his wife did not.