kathy49 Posted February 26, 2020 #3151 Share Posted February 26, 2020 3 minutes ago, Coral said: She is in Omaha and so far has tested negative. Hope it continues. She could be released March 2nd. Well given all the uncertainty about incubation times etc. who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glam mistress Posted February 26, 2020 #3152 Share Posted February 26, 2020 14 more cases from DP confirmed. https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1232653826299174912 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinville Posted February 26, 2020 #3153 Share Posted February 26, 2020 A fourth passenger from the ill-fated Diamond Princess died while quarantined in Japan having contracted Coronavirus aboard the ship. The four who have died were all in their 80s. Approx 700 have now been identified as having the virus. https://securelytravel.com/travel/diamond-princess-4-dead-due-to-covid-19/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissP22 Posted February 26, 2020 #3154 Share Posted February 26, 2020 I'd suspect with all the elderly Passengers traveling on Princess the number will still go higher. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fragilek Posted February 26, 2020 #3155 Share Posted February 26, 2020 (edited) The fall out from the Diamond is hitting all regions just heard Costa Magica has been turned away from St Lucia - Some on ship is blaming fear of the virus Edited February 26, 2020 by fragilek 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farts Posted February 26, 2020 #3156 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Cruise ship MSC Meraviglia turned away from two Caribbean ports amid coronavirus concerns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrennerM Posted February 26, 2020 #3157 Share Posted February 26, 2020 30 minutes ago, Farts said: Cruise ship MSC Meraviglia turned away from two Caribbean ports amid coronavirus concerns Even though the infected person just had the flu. Could be a sign of bad things to come for cruisers and cruise lines. If anyone has a fever on board it's pretty easy for port authorities to just say "sorry!" rather than do any due diligence about the situation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farts Posted February 26, 2020 #3158 Share Posted February 26, 2020 3 minutes ago, BrennerM said: Even though the infected person just had the flu. Could be a sign of bad things to come for cruisers and cruise lines. If anyone has a fever on board it's pretty easy for port authorities to just say "sorry!" rather than do any due diligence about the situation. Right. I mean, I understand where they are coming from with the abundance of caution. with being said, just because you test positive for the flu doesn't mean that the person does not have covid19 superimposed onto it. you could be really unlucky. Google: Hickam's Dictum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissP22 Posted February 26, 2020 #3159 Share Posted February 26, 2020 2 minutes ago, BrennerM said: Even though the infected person just had the flu. Could be a sign of bad things to come for cruisers and cruise lines. If anyone has a fever on board it's pretty easy for port authorities to just say "sorry!" rather than do any due diligence about the situation. So true especially if you're traveling just to experience a particular port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Psoque Posted February 26, 2020 #3160 Share Posted February 26, 2020 3 hours ago, kathy49 said: I keep reading about so many of those Japanese passengers that were just released into their communities in Japan and are not getting sick and testing positive. One has to wonder what were Japanese authorities thinking? That this would all go away and Japan could claim few cases??? Given they were driving the decisions on the failed Diamond Quarantine with one of the big goals to protect their citizens.....this action flies in the face of reason. I would have expected much better from Japan...and these reported cases are no doubt only a fraction of how many area really out there. There is a report of ONE person in Japan turning positive after disembarkation. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/23/coronavirus-woman-on-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-tested-positive-after-disembarking I would say "so many of those..." is not correct. 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesea321 Posted February 26, 2020 #3161 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Dozens of passengers allowed off the Diamond have developed symptoms including fever and will be asked to take tests for the virus, Japan's health minister said Wednesday. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-passengers-allowed-off-japan-showing-symptoms/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fragilek Posted February 26, 2020 #3162 Share Posted February 26, 2020 34 minutes ago, Psoque said: There is a report of ONE person in Japan turning positive after disembarkation. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/23/coronavirus-woman-on-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-tested-positive-after-disembarking I would say "so many of those..." is not correct. Correct that only one has so far tested +ve however today the authorities have stated that 45 are now displaying symptoms and are being retested. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthwestCruiser Posted February 26, 2020 #3163 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Except that it wasn't a quarantine, and was just about the opposite of a quarantine. I really don't think that governments or people really understood how dangerous this virus is (and I still think that many are underestimating it.) The goal of a quarantine is to keep the sick away from the healthy, and what happened here is that they selected sick people from the ship and put them into hospitals where other people could get infected. To make matters far worse, they put dozens of officials onboard and apparently more than one of them are now infected. The US is in the middle of making the same mistake, in my opinion, we now have a fair amount of infected people brought into the country that we are not quite ready to deal with apparently. I'm not sure what we should have done that would be compassionate but also not put millions of people in danger. Unfortunately 36 people from the cruise ship who are currently in Japan are now seriously ill. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host CJSKIDS Posted February 26, 2020 #3164 Share Posted February 26, 2020 (edited) As one of the hosts on the Princess boards, I just wanted to drop this post in again on the thread for anyone who hasn't seen it. There are so many pages and I know things get lost sometimes. Trying to keep the thread cruise related as well as possibly relating to Princess, Diamond Princess and the passengers and crew. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Couple of quick things going forward: Please keep this discussion cruise related Pleasure ensure that you do not copy and paste entire articles from other sites...instead select a key paragraph (usually the first) and LINK TO the article Keep things polite The community team will be following this discussion closely, and will remove any posts without notice to the author. Thank you for your cooperation LauraS Edited February 27, 2020 by Host CJSKIDS 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Psoque Posted February 26, 2020 #3165 Share Posted February 26, 2020 1 hour ago, NorthwestCruiser said: Except that it wasn't a quarantine, and was just about the opposite of a quarantine. I really don't think that governments or people really understood how dangerous this virus is (and I still think that many are underestimating it.) The goal of a quarantine is to keep the sick away from the healthy, and what happened here is that they selected sick people from the ship and put them into hospitals where other people could get infected. To make matters far worse, they put dozens of officials onboard and apparently more than one of them are now infected. The US is in the middle of making the same mistake, in my opinion, we now have a fair amount of infected people brought into the country that we are not quite ready to deal with apparently. I'm not sure what we should have done that would be compassionate but also not put millions of people in danger. Unfortunately 36 people from the cruise ship who are currently in Japan are now seriously ill. The goal of the quarantine is to identify those EXPOSED to the virus and keep them from going anywhere. The goal of ISOLATION is to keep the sick away from the healthy. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hal2008 Posted February 26, 2020 #3166 Share Posted February 26, 2020 400+ crew members from Phillipines and 120+ from India have been evacuated by respective goverment. That is great news for the crew. We wil know more about what actually happened once 2 months vacation payments are completed. There about 20+ crew members from Ukraine whose govt is willing to bring them back but crew have declined. On the other hand there are 40+ crew members from Indonesia pleading with their government for a rescuue but so far Indonesian government has declined. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtfasls Posted February 26, 2020 #3167 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Does anyone know how many people are left on the ship and when the ship will be moved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennAngel9 Posted February 26, 2020 #3168 Share Posted February 26, 2020 It's being reported that eight Japanese civil servants (unspecified if they are medical workers or not) who boarded Diamond princess are now infected with COVID19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kansas Gal Posted February 26, 2020 #3169 Share Posted February 26, 2020 8 minutes ago, JennAngel9 said: It's being reported that eight Japanese civil servants (unspecified if they are medical workers or not) who boarded Diamond princess are now infected with COVID19. Being reported by whom? It would be helpful if people would identify their sources with so much misinformation out there about the subject. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiserchuck Posted February 26, 2020 #3170 Share Posted February 26, 2020 28 minutes ago, Kansas Gal said: Being reported by whom? It would be helpful if people would identify their sources with so much misinformation out there about the subject. Here is an article that mentioned that "eight public servants who worked on the ship to support the quarantine have tested positive for COVID-19, and more may follow." https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/coronavirus-infections-keep-mounting-after-cruise-ship-fiasco-japan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonacruiser25 Posted February 26, 2020 #3171 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Sooner or later DP is going to be moved. If many of the crew are getting off and sent home, are they being replaced? Sure would be nice of Princess to put our REAL information about DP and crew. I wonder if Princess or any cruise line has any plan for how to operate a ship with a skeleton crew and "ferry" the ship to wherever it will be cleaned and hopefully returned to service. I am sure the Japan is looking forward to having DP leave but the visit will be long remembered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colo Cruiser Posted February 26, 2020 #3172 Share Posted February 26, 2020 22 minutes ago, zonacruiser25 said: Sooner or later DP is going to be moved. If many of the crew are getting off and sent home, are they being replaced? Sure would be nice of Princess to put our REAL information about DP and crew. I wonder if Princess or any cruise line has any plan for how to operate a ship with a skeleton crew and "ferry" the ship to wherever it will be cleaned and hopefully returned to service. I am sure the Japan is looking forward to having DP leave but the visit will be long remembered! Yes as noted in other posts Princess already has a crew on standby to move the ship when released. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich_cathybrock Posted February 27, 2020 #3173 Share Posted February 27, 2020 David Abel blogging live to YouTube: Sally now negative (big yeah), he is still positive but the Pneumonia is getting better (yeah, him!). No meds, just monitoring them closely. He says they can't treat since viral. He is using exercise and diet to recover his oxygen levels and it appears to be working. A bit of good news from two of Diamond's best cheerleaders. Gob bless em! 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#55worktoplay Posted February 27, 2020 #3174 Share Posted February 27, 2020 So that is great news for Sally but for the experts, if she is negative and he is positive is there a risk of her getting the virus again by sharing a room with him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlyssaJames Posted February 27, 2020 #3175 Share Posted February 27, 2020 26 minutes ago, #55worktoplay said: So that is great news for Sally but for the experts, if she is negative and he is positive is there a risk of her getting the virus again by sharing a room with him? She will likely have antibodies for that strain for some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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