In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, it was the Diamond Princess cruise ship, not a country, that trailed only China in the number confirmed COVID-19 cases. While the ill-fated trip dragged on in quarantine off the coast of Japan for about a month, 700 passengers became sick and 12 died.
We can tell that something’s up on these cruise ships during the pandemic, and questions are also arising about the safety of airplanes and buildings, said Brian Fleck, a mechanical engineering professor and a co-applicant on a study aimed at determining whether and how viruses use a buildings ventilations system to seek out hosts….
