There are these two cruise ships that give us two very different and very scary glimpses

into how coronavirus is spreading in the world right now.

You've heard of the diamond princess from Princess Cruises, that's the one off the coast

of Japan where almost everyone's stuck on the ship, and now this ship has the biggest

outbreak of coronavirus outside of mainland China.

Then their ship too, the western dam from Holland America.

After trying to dock in five other countries and being turned away, the western dam finally

anchored in Cambodia and everyone disembarked, almost as soon as that happened to one of

its passengers, an American tested positive for coronavirus.

Now, there's this scramble to find everyone who was on the ship and track down every

single person they've interacted with since.

Today on the show, we're going to take a closer look at how coronavirus was handled on

each of these ships and all the related ethical, moral, and scientific concerns because

the world has never quite seen this.

A brand new, unfamiliar virus spreading on cruise ships and now, probably on land because

of cruise ships.

We're going to start with the diamond princess.

Julia Beluz has been covering it for Vox.

So it's a luxury cruise liner that was supposed to go on this two week journey around East

Asia and 3,700 people on the ship, a thousand of them are crew and the passengers and the

crew pale from countries all over the world.

So some of the passengers are from Canada, Australia, the US, Japan, Britain, and the crew members

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