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Did Cruise Companies Act too Late?

Title (Dublin Core)

Did Cruise Companies Act too Late?

Description (Dublin Core)

All it took was one passenger who disembarked a week before others began to fall ill, to quarantine all passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess by February 4th. Given the dire nature of these outbreaks, many have asked – did the cruise companies act too late? This Washington Post article outlines the experiences of the Celebrity Eclipse and Coral Princess, where before passengers could disembark, the two ships reported 150 Covid-19 cases and six deaths in April. At the time the article was written, the cruise industry reported outbreaks on 55 ships in waters across the globe and 65 deaths among passengers and crew. The article alleges that the industry failed to recognize the signs and symptoms of Covid-19, which later were confirmed as positive cases. Further concerning allegations from the article claim that cruise ships brought Covid-19 to ports and cities around the globe that were otherwise virus-free, where many places lacked the infrastructure to handle large-scale outbreaks.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 25, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Rosalind S. Helderman
Hannah Sampson
Dalton Bennett
Andrew Ba Tran

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Sarah Peterson

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

News Article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/cruise-ships-coronavirus/
https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/cruise-ships-coronavirus/

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Health & Wellness
English News coverage
English Public Health & Hospitals
English Travel
English Transportation

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

cruise
cruise ship
California
Celebrity Eclipse
Coral Princess
virus spread
Diamond Princess
Japan
Grand Princess
quarantine
travel ban
death

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

cruise
industry
ship
health
sanitation
outbreaks
deaths
late
sanitizer
aerosol
airborne
risk
safety
vessel
passengers
ventilation
Celebrity Eclipse
Coral Princess
crew
symptoms
failed
ports
infrastructure

Collection (Dublin Core)

Deathways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

09/03/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

09/10/2020
1/28/2021
08/02/2022
09/23/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

04/25/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on September 3, 2020 by Sarah Peterson using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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