1. An American woman who left a cruise ship in Cambodia last week and flew to M'sia has tested positive for the coronavirus. Hundreds of passengers from the ship have already departed for several countries. Health experts say they are alarmed. w @RCPaddock nyti.ms/2SzIgy9
@RCPaddock 2. Eyal Leshem, a public health expert from Israel, called the disclosures “extremely concerning” and said the passengers’ travel onward from Kuala Lumpur increased the risk of a pandemic. “We may end up with 3 or 4 countries with sustained transmission of the virus.”
3. More than 140 other passengers from the ship had flown from Cambodia to the airport in Kuala Lumpur. All but eight were allowed to continue to their destinations, including airports in Australia, the Netherlands and the United States.
4. Had the good fortune of finding @ChristinaKerby who was on the Westerdam. “We made the decision that it’s not worth passing up the potential to have a lot of fun and see the world just out of fear. That’s why I joined, and I think the other passengers have the same feeling.”
5. “We anticipated glitches, but I have to tell you I didn’t anticipate one of this magnitude,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. nytimes.com/2020/02/16/wor…
6. Dr. Peter Rabinowitz at the University of Washington said the episode would test the limits of contact tracing, the method used to track down people exposed to infection.
“It’s really daunting to control a situation like this now that people have gone all over the world."
“It’s really daunting to control a situation like this now that people have gone all over the world."
