OK, you've mentioned two different measurements: infection rate (I'm guessing you're referring to R0) and mortality (do you mean mortality rate or case fatality

OK, you've mentioned two different measurements: infection rate (I'm guessing you're referring to R0) and mortality (do you mean mortality rate or case fatality rate, because I was referring to the latter one). The cruise ship had a strict room-based quarantine, so that would not infect the R0 of a general community-based outbreak, unless we institute similar measures (confining people to their houses, which is likely not feasible). If you're referring to case fatality rate, I'm really interested in that data. Do you have a link? The case fatality rate from the cruise ship is a very small sample, and a very specific population, so it's susceptible to all kinds of bias. It's unlikely to be an accurate reflection of case fatality rate in the general population. Still, I'm interested in those numbers. I've not been able to find them online. Did they test all the people on the cruise ship?