“Each cabin intakes and exhausts air separately”
Admittedly, I only served on six ships. And, admittedly, they were Navy ships and not luxury liners. However, I just don’t see how that could be done.
COVID-19 , SARS and MERS
Very easily. The heat/chill medium is central and runs off ship power. The liquid coolant circulates through the ship to heat exchangers in each room. Air circulation is a simple fan/duct arrangement from outside air and back, probably with some kind of particle filtration in the air loop. Zero possibility of bacterial/viral cross-contamination.
Navy ships have totally different requirements.