Trump II Virus Deja Vu: Does MV Hondius rhyme with Diamond Princess?

Rat virus panic hits Texas and Virginia as it's revealed passengers aboard hantavirus cruise returned to those states before outbreak was spotted

 ... A 70-year-old Dutch man was the first person to die on April 11 after experiencing days of severe illness, followed by his wife two days later.

... Six Americans disembarked MV Hondius on April 24 on the island of St Helena, 13 days following the first death on board, operator Oceanwide Expeditions revealed on Thursday. 

... Oceanwide Expeditions, the Netherlands-based cruise ship company, said Thursday that 30 passengers left the vessel at St. Helena. 

The company had not previously revealed publicly that dozens more people left the ship. 

The first hantavirus case on board of the vessel was not confirmed by authorities until May 2. ... 

 

 

Coronavirus death rate rises again, to 2.93%

76,700+ cases

2,249 dead

The virus has now spread to Iran, where four have died, and to Lebanon.

A passenger returned from the Diamond Princess cruise ship has brought it to Israel. 

A person in Chengdu, China, almost 700 miles from Wuhan, who recovered from the infection and was discharged on Feb 10, went into quarantine at home for 14 days but re-presented with the infection this week.

Two elderly Japanese who were guests on Diamond Princess cruise ship have died from coronavirus

From the start, experts raised questions about quarantine on the ship. Passengers were not confined to rooms until Feb. 5. The day before, as passengers were being screened, ship events continued, including dances, quiz games and an exercise class.

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The deceased patients — a man and a woman — were in their 80s and were residents of Japan. Both were taken ashore for treatment last week after having prolonged fevers, and they ultimately tested positive for the newly identified virus, known officially as COVID-19. They both died Thursday, according to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, which is leading and coordinating the public health response on board the cruise ship. ... The WHO has not yet officially confirmed several other deaths recently reported in various nations, including the two cruise ship passengers in Japan.

Diamond Princess cruise ship coronavirus infections jump to 621

The infection rate for the 3,711 passengers and crew therefore jumps to 16.7%.

NIH's Anthony Fauci says quarantine of 2,666 passengers and 1,045 crew on Diamond Princess cruise ship wasn't unreasonable but failed

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"The quarantine process failed," Fauci said. "I'd like to sugarcoat it and try to be diplomatic about it, but it failed. People were getting infected on that ship. Something went awry in the process of the quarantining on that ship. I don't know what it was, but a lot of people got infected on that ship."

Whoa, overnight infections with coronavirus onboard quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship jump again, to 542 as tests come in on more of the 3,700 passengers and crew

Previous recent news reports had indicated approximately only 1,743 of the 3,700 passengers and crew had been tested.

The new test total is now 2,404.

The overall infection rate thus jumps to 14.6%, but the way this is being handled and reported is, let's just say, something only Gunney Highway could properly assess.

Coronavirus cases onboard Diamond Princess cruise ship jump to 454

Infection rate jumps to 12.3%, despite confinement to cabins.

Death rate from coronavirus in China increases again, to 2.5%

There are 70,548 confirmed cases, and 1,770 deaths, according to Chinese authorities.

A 40% global pandemic and at this death rate would kill 74 million people worldwide, and about 8 million in the United States.

The Diamond Princess cruise ship, quarantined in Japan and with all passengers confined to cabin, has an infection rate of 9.6%, with 356 total cases of coronavirus out of approximately 3,700 passengers and crew and no deaths reported to date.

If the US observed similarly strict quarantine measures during a pandemic and achieved a similar infection rate of only 9.6%, there would eventually be roughly 32 million domestic cases of which about 800,000 would die at a 2.5% death rate, far surpassing total world deaths from influenza in a bad year.

The US has fewer than 1 million hospital beds available, dropping from 1.5 million in 1975 to about 931,000 as of 2017.

A pandemic in the US would present some of the same survivability issues faced by victims in China, where the sick are turned away simply for lack of space.