Good morning, everyone.

It is my second day here at the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha, Nebraska.

And I just wanted to give you a little tour of my room.

From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.

This is the daily.

So this is the door where I've only entered once because I will not be exiting.

Inside a hospital in Nebraska, 16 Americans who have been exposed to the hunter virus aboard a cruise ship have begun an unusually long quarantine that in some cases will last up to 42 days.

This is the one bag that I was able to bring, and I shoved socks, underwear, shorts, and things

throughout the bag where I had space. I prioritized my electronics.

Medical officials say that precaution is required to protect the public from a little understood disease

that has already proven highly fatal to those on board the ship.

So my thought is, I know that if anything were to happen,

I can't foresee there being anywhere else to have better medical care for this specific illness than being cured.

Today, Apurva Mandevili on what we're learning about that outbreak, the virus behind it,

and how a public health system, still reelingeling from COVID responded to the crisis.

98.6, now I have to put on my mask so I can show the nurses that my comfort is all good.

It's Friday, May 15th.

Apurvo, welcome back to The Daily.

Thanks for having me.

Always a pleasure.

It feels like in our post-COVID world where every virus that you hear about inevitably resurrects the ghosts of the pandemic, this latest

outbreak on a ship, that this has really consumed all of our imaginations and kept a few of us

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