The pandemic at sea

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🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Rosalind Helderman explains how the cruise industry carried the coronavirus around the globe. Greg Miller on the virus briefings Trump skipped. And, how young caregivers are impacted by social distancing, from Tara Bahrampour.

Cruise ships kept sailing for weeks after the coronavirus was first detected, carrying the virus around the globe.

President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited the coronavirus threat. He skipped them.

Young caregivers are used to social isolation. Covid-19 is bringing added stress as it threatens resources they depend upon.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi, this is Tracy Jamm, Collie from the Post.
0:08.0	I'm a president from PowerU.
0:10.0	Hi, it's Robert Devon, at the Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:18.0	It's Tuesday, April 28th.
0:23.0	Today, how the cruise industry's decisions
0:26.0	help spread COVID around the world.
0:28.0	The briefings that Trump ignored, and millennial caregivers.
0:40.0	So, as the month of March ended,
0:43.0	there were all these cruise ships that were still out at sea
0:46.0	trying to find their way home.
0:51.0	Ross Helderman is an investigative reporter for the Post,
0:54.0	including a ship called Celebrity Eclipse.
0:57.0	This is a ship that had been all the way down in South America.
1:00.0	It was barred, docking in Chile, and now was trying to get home to San Diego.
1:06.0	And while they were sort of steaming north on this very long voyage,
1:10.0	folks on the ship were being told repeatedly by Ship Crew that there was a healthy ship.
1:16.0	No one had coronavirus on board.
1:19.0	And in fact, they were being encouraged to continue to gather.
1:22.0	There's this amazing scene where I'm March 21st.
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