21 test positive on California cruise ship, of 46 tested

[struggle4progress]

By Brady Dennis, Mark Berman and Hannah Sampson
March 6, 2020 at 5:56 p.m. EST

Nearly half of the people initially tested aboard a cruise ship being held in waters off San Francisco have been infected with the coronavirus ...

The public health disaster on the ship echoed a similar crisis from last month, when 700 people aboard another Princess Cruises ship, the Diamond Princess, became infected with the coronavirus while the ship was quarantined for weeks off Yokohama harbor in Japan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/dozens-of-passengers-on-a-stranded-cruise-ship-are-infected-by-coronavirus-that-number-could-soon-grow/2020/03/06/17cf1974-5fdb-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

[abqtommy]

1. Interesting numbers for a math question in school, otherwise not very meanigful, I think...

I accept that this COVID-19 is dangerous and very contagious. So now I can focus on surviving it with the information that's now available and further information to come...

[Blues Heron]

2. Can't they at least bring it into the bay?

Why does it have to circle aimlessly offshore?