JAPAN
The Costa Atlantica first arrived in Nagasaki in January to undergo repairs, with several hundred crew on board....
...An initial four tests carried out on the ship revealed a first infection on Monday, with additional testing among 57 crew finding a total of 34 cases by Wednesday.
...The exact number of people on the ship was not immediately clear, though initial reports said 623 crew of various nationalities had been on board.
Some are believed to have moved around inside Nagasaki city in recent weeks.
looks like Japan may have discovered the source of at least part of their outbreak
CLINICAL
Doctors try to untangle why they’re seeing ‘unprecedented’ blood clotting among Covid-19 patients
“You just watch it clot right in front of you,” said Hibbert, director of the medical intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. “It’s rare to have that happen once, and extremely rare to have that happen twice.”
...”The number of clotting problems I’m seeing in the ICU, all related to Covid-19, is unprecedented,” Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, a hematologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, wrote in an email to CNN. “Blood clotting problems appear to be widespread in severe Covid.”
Laurence and his colleagues looked at autopsies on two patients and found blood clots in the lungs and just beneath the surface of the skin...
Hibbert described how a nurse recently had to constantly administer a blood thinner called heparin to a Covid-19 patient while the patient was undergoing kidney dialysis, because clots kept clogging up the tubing in the machine.
CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/health/blood-clots-coronavirus/index.html