Neil Freiman

There are still over 100 people, passengers and crew on this ship, and they're heading to the Canary Islands right now, where on Saturday they will get there and then hopefully go through this evacuation process beginning on Monday.

But yeah, there are people who paid for this cruise that are still on the ship right now and have been reading about.

what it's like to be on a ship where already three people have died and five people have been taken to hospitals after being infected with this hantavirus.

And yeah, it's what we know from COVID.

They're social distancing.

They're wearing masks.

They're trying to do anything to stay occupied, watching TV, reading books.

And the people on the ship say morale is pretty high given all the circumstances, but I'm sure they're pretty excited to get off.

Yeah, the sentiment online toward the cruise industry was not so positive this week.

People are like, why are we still going on cruises when this can happen?

Obviously, in COVID in March 2020, the cruise industry was also in the spotlight for being this petri dish of disease.

an area or a place where these kind of diseases can spread.

But since we're talking about COVID, I mean, WHO officials yesterday stressed that they're taking this seriously, but we should not consider this like COVID at all, because basically the COVID is transmitted a lot more easily

The hantavirus spread on this cruise ship was also quite unusual.

This human transmission is very rare because you need to be in close contact with someone for a very long time, unlike COVID, where if you're just in the room for a couple of hours or minutes, then you could basically contract it then.

So that's why basically the only place where a human can give hantavirus to another human might be a cruise ship.

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