COVID-19 Spreads to 89 Cruise Ships, Prompting a U.S. CDC Investigation

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Protection identified 89 cruise ships with COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, nearly all of which have met the threshold for a formal investigation.

Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal urged cruise companies and health agencies to stop ships from sailing, saying they are “repeating recent history as petri dishes of Covid-19 infection.” Operators such as Carnival Corp. have implemented safeguards including mandatory masking and proof of vaccination, but the fast-spreading omicron variant has triggered an increasing number of infections and reports of ships being turned away at ports.

“Time for CDC & cruise lines to protect consumers & again pause—docking their ships,” Blumenthal said in a tweet.

Roger Frizzell, a spokesperson for Carnival, said in an email that “our health and safety protocols put in place have proven to be effective time and time again over the past year with our sailings being restarted across each of our brands.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/covid-19-spreads-to-89-cruise-ships-prompting-a-us-cdc-investigation/ar-AASdohi

[Budi]

1. A flotilla! Mexico is the only country remaining where most can even dock at this point.

No one wants what they're bringing

[AllaN01Bear]

2. did they come out from florida, where deathsantis governs?

[FloridaBlues]

6. Yes where he banned mandates for cruise ships in fact sued them.

[GP6971]

8. Please crawl back under your rock. n/t

[madville]

3. Cruise ships were virus hotbeds well before COVID

Remember the Norwalk or Norovirus or whatever it is called? Not surprising at all, thousands used to get infected by it regularly on cruise ships.

[relayerbob]

4. Cruise ships are petri dishes with or without covid

Never had any desire to get on one, and covid hasn't helped that desire

[captain queeg]

5. You'd have to be pretty stupid or a RWer to book on one of those right now.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Exactly.

Dr. Fauci said the only safe "gatherings" are in small groups where you know everyone - and that they are all vaccinated and boosted.