WHO Director: "Covid-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza"

Re:WHO Director: "Covid-19 does not transmit as efficiently ... by eric-hu on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @09:17PM (#22490325)

This isn't an accurate representation of how the number got to 700. The numbers were low when the ship docked. I recall in the single digits. Everyone was put on cabin quarantine, though people could leave their rooms for a window of time each day. It was quarantine and they were testing symptomatic people. I was watching mostly HK and Taiwanese news sources on it multiple times every day.

That makes me very skeptical of the WHO claim that asymptomatic spread isn't a problem.

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Re:WHO Director: "Covid-19 does not transmit as efficiently ... by Scarblac on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:40AM (#22491681)

They all got served food by the ship's crew, who still shared bunk beds and weren't really quarantined.

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Re:WHO Director: "Covid-19 does not transmit as efficiently ... by eric-hu on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:14AM (#22494152)

This is true. Do you think under those conditions, the ship would have symptomatic employees serving food or sharing bunks with asymptomatic employees? That really goes against the idea of quarantine, so I'd like to see evidence of that instead of assuming it.

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