On CNN Wolf Blitzer: only 46 of the 3500 people on board the Grand Princess were tested, and

[AnotherMother4Peace]

21 of those 46 tested positive. Blitzer asked Sanjay Gupta "what about the other 3450 people on board that ship?" Gupta responded "They're going to have to figure this out."

[Mike 03]

1. Exactly. I think a lot of people were thinking only 21 people aboard the

ship tested positive. 3450 HAVEN'T BEEN TESTED YET. The passengers will probably be tested at the Air Force bases. The crew of over 1000 will remain aboard the cruise vessel (as of now) where they, too, will hopefully be tested.

This will be an enormous operation.

[AllyCat]

2. What??? 705 people tested positive on that ship!!

6 have died and only 10 recovered. WTF is he talking about??

ON EDIT: Is this a different ship than the Diamond Princess?

[Mike 03]

4. This is the Grand Princess.

The Diamond Princess was the first cruise ship.

The Grand Princess is offshore in San Francisco.

It's confusing because the cruise ships have similar names.

[Lindsay]

5. Yes, this is the Grand Princess

that's quarantined off San Francisco.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. This was reported on Wolf Blitzer 3/6/20 show about the Grand Princess

being quarantined off the CA coast. When Pence was reporting on it, it sounded like only 21 people on the whole ship tested positive. It was rather shocking to hear the Blitzer/Gupta exchange in clarifying the situation.

[spanone]

8. that's a horse of a different color

[AnotherMother4Peace]

9. Yes - sorry. I just added "Grand Princess" to clarify.

[uponit7771]

3. Trump admin didn't distribute WHO test based on China's Jan 12 genetic sequence report

[SunSeeker]

7. Oh my fucking God. And of those 46, 21 were positive. So HALF have it!!

[The_jackalope]

10. Do we know how those 46 were chosen for testing?

Probably all were symptomatic or had been in close contact.

It raises real questions about everyone else though
1000 positive tests would be a real floating nightmare.

[SoCalNative]

13. Earlier reports stated

that the ones being tested had been on the prior cruise with then passenger who died in CA and were showing symptoms. But not sure how accurate that was.

[dchill]

11. Yup. There may be 1700+ cases of COVID 19...

...on that one ship. Can't have that story coming out! If they can't be tested, then they can't be added to the truly unknown total of corona virus cases in the US. Trump & Co can keep on lying.

[Ms. Toad]

16. There's still only 22 confirmed cases in the US

At least that's the last pretend number I heard from the orange beast. Those don't count, since they are imported . . .

[SoCalNative]

12. And 19 of the 21

are crew members.

[SunSeeker]

17. Right, who have contact with more people than regular passengers.

It's bad.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

15. So my local San Diego news station leads with "Mike Pence announced that 21 people of the

Grand Princess have tested positive for the Corona virus." no mention of the fact that only 46 people have been tested.

[wackadoo wabbit]

18. A much better headline would be "More than 45% of people . . .

. . . tested for coronavirus on the Grand Princess were positive for the virus."

But fat chance of that happening.