As many as three cruise ships currently in ports and waters surrounding Asia are being quarantined for possible novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections on board, in what some experts call an unnecessary “horror movie scenario,” while others suggest the cruise ship settings will shed new light on the virus, including transmission patterns.
“It’s one thing if you’re in the middle of the ocean, but if you are at a port you can’t use these people as guinea pigs,” Amesh Adalja, MD, senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University. Adalja has been following the news of the cruise ships closely, and warned on Twitter that forced quarantines will bring bad consequences all around.
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