“ Time to get everyone off that ship and into real isolation.”
Nope. They’re just fine right there. If someone gets sick enough to need intensive care which cannot be transported onboard, then take them off. This virus doesn’t seem to be airborne, so the ship is better than moving them through populated areas to some kind of isolation tank, which is what I imagine you’re thinking of.
I think we can get a good idea of the real infection and mortality rates, now that they’re in a first-world country and not the lying, third-world Communist China.
“I think we can get a good idea of the real infection and mortality rates, now that they’re in a first-world country and not the lying, third-world Communist China.”
I think Westernized countries will handle things better - containment, treatment and eventually a vaccine or cure - than the Chinese who are more preoccupied with saving face than saving lives.
The vast majority of the reported fatalities have been in the Wu Han region (Hubei Province, but probably Wu Han itself) where the mortality rate is above 30% (871 deaths, 1795 recovered). There have been few deaths anywhere else (39 other deaths; 37 in China proper, 1 in Hong Kong and 1 in the Philippines).
So far no deaths in a country with modern robust medical infrastructure.
It’s early, yet, for the rest of the world. This thing had a month or more to run free in Wu Han and the rest of China before people in the rest of the world started to pay real attention (”it’s just the flu”, yeah, right).
The next couple of weeks should show us how this is going to go outside of China. Regardless of how well the rest of the world deals with it, I think it’s too late for China and this thing is going to wreak havoc there for a while until it burns itself out (I pray that I am wrong on that point).
I wouldn’t go to Central/South America or Africa for a while, either. We don’t know what’s happening there and I doubt they would recognize it there early enough to take effective measures.
Shanghai officials reveal novel coronavirus transmission modes Confirmed transmission routes of the novel coronavirus include direct transmission, contact transmission and ***aerosol transmission*** a Shanghai official said on Saturday.
https://chinadaily.com.cn/a/202002/08/WS5e3e7d97a310128217275fc3.html