"He can come on board if he wants and serve us our food and bring me my towel," a Grand Princess passenger responded.
The Grand Princess cruise ship hangs in limbo off the coast of San Francisco after 21 of its passengers and crew members tested positive for the new coronavirus.
"I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault," Trump said in a Fox News interview."It wasn't the fault of the people on the ship either, ok? It wasn't their fault either, and they're mostly American, so I can live either way with it," he added."I would rather have them stay on personally, but I fully understand if they want to take them off.
More than 700 people who were on the Diamond Princess tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new virus. The ship sat in the port of Yokohama, Japan, for two weeks in February as the local government placed everyone on board under quarantine.Experts have criticized the Japanese government's decision to keep passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess, and some have said the quarantine procedures may have even helped the virus spread.
Crew members were especially at risk on that ship, since they still had to share cabins, bring food to passengers, and eat together in a mess hall. Dr. Norio Ohmagari, director of Japan's Disease Control and Prevention Center, told CNN that the quarantine"may not have been perfect" and that"scientifically speaking," crew members should have been isolated just like passengers.
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