Aboard The Diamond Princess Cruise Ship

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Aboard the diamond princess cruise ship. Interpretation Our results demonstrate that aerosol inhalation was likely the dominant contributor to COVID-19 transmission among passengers aboard the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship. Messages given to crew onboard varied. This study looked at transmission during the outbreak of COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess cruise ship January to February 2020.

The first by Kakimoto is a preliminary report of the investigation carried out onboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess when docked at Yokohama Japan. Moreover close-range and long-range transmission likely contributed similarly to disease progression aboard the ship with fomite transmission playing a smaller role. She began operation in March 2004 and primarily cruises in Asia during the northern hemisphere summer and Australia during the southern hemisphere summer.

It was their fourth night aboard the Diamond Princessa floating city of a ship that had been churning south from Yokohama Japanand they. The second is a model estimating IFRs with inference from the epidemiological characteristics of the ship outbreak to the population of China not discussed. View the Diamond Princess photo gallery and explore pictures of the ships dining rooms lounges pools and other onboard amenities.

The Diamond Princess DP cruise ship was the site of the largest outbreak of COVID-19 outside China in February 2020 with 712 19 cases among 3711 passengers and crew. Modeled cases are from 132 model scenarios that met acceptable criteria R 2 095 for cumulative daily cases and R 2 0 for daily cases. By February 16th four weeks after the first passengers had boarded the ship in Yokohama the Diamond Princess warranted its own category in the World Health Organisations daily report on the.

Dining on board a Princess cruise ship is a joyful celebration and our specialty restaurants always deliver an extraordinary experience. Reported actual and modeled predicted cumulative COVID-19 cases aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship from January 20 to February 24 2020. Of 3711 persons onboard 437 were US citizens.

On 20 January 2020 the DP departed Yokohama Japan on a round-trip voyage making stops in Vietnam Taiwan and Japan. A Japanese epidemiologist described conditions aboard the Diamond Princess as completely chaotic2 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC questioned the efficacy of the onboard lockdown and infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci who is advising the White House on the covid-19 pandemic said the vessels quarantine process had failed3. Crew members aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship are seen at its wheelhouse at the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama.