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Editor, Senior Moderator
Disaster Med Public Health Prep
. 2020 Jun 5;1-9.
doi: 10.1017/dmp.2020.187. Online ahead of print.
Medical Transport for 769 COVID-19 Patients on a Cruise Ship by Japan DMAT
Hideaki Anan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hisayoshi Kondo[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ichiro Takeuchi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Tomoki Nakamori[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Yu Ikeda[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Osamu Akasaka[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yuichi Koido[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
The Diamond Princess cruise ship, carrying 3,711 passengers and crew members, docked at Yokohama Port in Japan on February 3, 2020. A quarantine was immediately instituted because one passenger who had disembarked in Hong Kong was confirmed to have tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). After the quarantine began, all passengers and crew were tested using the SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction assay on the ship, 696 of whom tested positive. In total, 769 patients, including 696 with COVID-19, required transport to a hospital. The Japan Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) successfully picked up and safely transported the COVID-19 patients using a novel classification system to prioritize patients. The Japan DMAT transported 203 patients to hospitals in Kanagawa and another 566 patients to hospitals in 15 different prefectures.
Keywords: disaster medicine; infectious disease medicine; quarantine.
. 2020 Jun 5;1-9.
doi: 10.1017/dmp.2020.187. Online ahead of print.
Medical Transport for 769 COVID-19 Patients on a Cruise Ship by Japan DMAT
Hideaki Anan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hisayoshi Kondo[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ichiro Takeuchi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Tomoki Nakamori[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Yu Ikeda[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Osamu Akasaka[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yuichi Koido[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32498735
- DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.187
Abstract
The Diamond Princess cruise ship, carrying 3,711 passengers and crew members, docked at Yokohama Port in Japan on February 3, 2020. A quarantine was immediately instituted because one passenger who had disembarked in Hong Kong was confirmed to have tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). After the quarantine began, all passengers and crew were tested using the SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction assay on the ship, 696 of whom tested positive. In total, 769 patients, including 696 with COVID-19, required transport to a hospital. The Japan Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) successfully picked up and safely transported the COVID-19 patients using a novel classification system to prioritize patients. The Japan DMAT transported 203 patients to hospitals in Kanagawa and another 566 patients to hospitals in 15 different prefectures.
Keywords: disaster medicine; infectious disease medicine; quarantine.