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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

That's Not Funny: "American comedian broke quarantine while he was stuck on the Westerdam coronavirus cruise ship in Cambodia and got a flight home"

It doesn't appear that he was infected, but there is increasing evidence that the COVID-19 virus can be spread by people without symptoms, according to this Philadelphia Enquirer article. According to that article:

      Testing of throat swabs from two people with no symptoms of coronavirus illness revealed that they were nonetheless infected with the virus, according to a report from Germany published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

      The finding, though previously suspected, would make the job of containing the virus significantly more difficult.

      “We discovered that shedding of potentially infectious virus may occur in persons who have no fever and no signs or only minor signs of infection,” concluded the paper, authored by 20 scientists, physicians, and public health officials in Frankfurt.

1 comment:

  1. Actually, it is pretty funny. Comedian Frank King, who was a contract employee with Holland-America, lost his job because of his stunt. And, this self-centered entitled comedian bills himself as a mental health comedian.

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