6/16/2023 0 Comments Under observation my first loveTime for CDC & cruise lines to protect consumers & again pause – docking their ships. In a tweet on Tuesday, Senator Richard Blumenthal criticized the resumption of cruises, saying: “Our warnings have proved sadly prescient & continuously compelling. Royal Caribbean owns 25 and Norwegian Cruise Line owns 15. The majority of the 86 cruise ships being investigated or monitored by the CDC belong to the largest three cruise operators: 32 of the ships are owned by Carnival, including its Holland America and Princess Cruises brands. The CDC also investigates a crew-only ship if cases are reported in less than 1% of crew. If a ship is carrying 6,500 passengers, it would require at least seven passenger-cases during the previous seven days to meet the agency’s investigation threshold. The CDC investigates a ship if the cases onboard are reported in 0.10% or more of passengers on restricted voyages, which typically have thousands of passengers and usually sail for five to 10 days. “Cruise ships may also be a means by which infected persons travel between geographic locations,” it added. “Cruise ships involve the movement of large numbers of people in settings where they are likely to have close contact with one another,” it said. The agency regards cruise ships as hubs of contagion, especially as the more contagious Omicron variant spreads. Cruises leaving ports across the US resumed in June after being halted for over a year due to the pandemic.
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