“This is absolutely insane . . . if possible, the literal stupidest possible plan,” Binney said on Twitter. “You have a raging outbreak, anyone in the Marlin’s traveling party could be infected regardless of how their tests come back. So by all means, just bring that on the road to Baltimore!”
On the “Starkville” podcast, Binney said, “At a minimum, you have to shut down for at least five days to see if more cases uncover. And you need to wait because you could have ongoing transmission from cases that are newly discovered tomorrow or the next day. You could still have more come from chains of transmission from those people after that. So there’s no cure but time here, unfortunately.”