[Cicero]

It's too damned late to do anything, frankly. They should have leaned on China to cooperate or be cut off. And they should have stopped all travel to Hong Kong.

If two crew members on the plane came down with it, then far more than 200 passengers have been exposed. Incubation time is up to a week, or possibly up to 10 days. So these people have been flying on several flights, or have been traveling about in America, for at least a week.

[fleance]

The govt does not want to stop airline flights to/from hong kong, china, or canada because it would cause a panic and it would further hurt airline's business which are already declaring bankruptcy.

No, we're gonna have to see much worse, e.g. 10000s infected and 1000s die before they even think about restricting flights, and by that timme it would be too late to contain it.

That plane wouldn't have been quarranteed if one of the four people hadn't requested medical assistance.