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Lawrence Gostin is a professor of global health at Georgetown and also directs the World Health Organization's Center on Global Health.

He's been thinking a lot about COVID these days.

All right, so you've said and you've written that what happened early on in this outbreak raises some very real concerns for you.

What are the concerns?

All right.

A reasonable person might say, doctor, but it's not COVID.

It's not Ebola or influenza.

It's something that, as you said, is harder to transmit.

So is that the reason why people are being let off the ship and let travel?

I mean, is the is the system responding to the virus that we have, which is hantavirus, hard to transmit?

Or was there a real failure that you can point to here?

Ah, okay.

Okay.

The outbreak aboard a cruise ship in Japan is getting worse, with more than 130 cases confirmed, including nearly a dozen Americans.

We're now learning two passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship have died.

All right.

So I hear you saying that some things went wrong in 2020.