Diamond Princess coronavirus quarantine was 'fundamental failure,' says Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer
The quarantine on the Diamond Princess cruise ship failed because adequate steps weren't taken to stop the spread of the virus aboard the ship itself, says a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer.
"One of the most important rules of effective quarantine is to separate the sick from the well, that's the whole point," said Laurie Garrett, a former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
"But in this case, the ship was quarantined, so it wasn't really, effectively, about separating the sick from the well, it was about separating the ship from the shore," she told The Current's Matt Galloway.
"And I think that's the fundamental failure."