About 40 Americans who are being kept on a quarantined cruise ship held off the coast of Japan have contracted the mysterious new virus that has triggered mass lockdowns and supply-chain shutdowns in China.
“Forty of them have gotten infected,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, in a Feb. 16 interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation,” referring to the U.S. citizens on board the Diamond Princess.
