Covid outbreak aboard cruise ship highlights difficulty of keeping virus at bay

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A coronavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that docked in New Orleans over the weekend has called into question the safety and health measures cruise lines implemented to resuscitate the industry after a yearlong pandemic shutdown.

People look at Norwegian Breakaway, on the Hudson River, in New York, on May 8, 2013.

The outbreak demonstrates the difficulty of keeping the virus away from cruise ships despite the implementation of strict public health protocols. Cruises were shut down under a"No Sail Order" issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in March 2020.or a negative Covid-19 test for all passengers and crew members.

In another instance between July and August, 58 passengers and crew members aboard a ship become infected, the CDC reported.“It’s a high-risk environment,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. “A cruise ship is an enclosed population where people are in close face-to-face contact often in very small places for prolonged periods of time.

Saag recommends cruise passengers get tested for Covid minutes before boarding a ship and that they wear masks while touring off the boat.

 

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This is so stupid. Let people travel and enjoy their cruise. You don't think this stuff is spreading in restaurants? Shopping centers? Gyms?

Just goes to show you that people can NOT congregate in small spaces without spreading the virus. People simply do NOT follow the protocols equally, those that don't follow them just keep spreading the virus. I saw men on the bus yesterday that were not wearing their masks!

If you look at the industry's history before the pandemic; it's no surprise.

We knew that was coming.

Cruise ships are just floating garbage bins of waste. Wasteful people that waste food and money. A swirlie in the toilet is cleaner.

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Who are these ppl who HAVE to be on a cruise? Even if it means risking their lives.

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Apparently idiots didn't learn that cruse ships were nothing but virus Petri dishes back in the early days of the pandemic.

ok

Tom and Waystar Royco gotta make these cruise ships safer SuccessionHBO

who cares it's a damn cold

Measures like rushing back to the business of cramming 1000s of people into close quarters in the middle of a raging pandemic?

Coronavirus, norovirus, no thanks. Never ever ever will I step foot on a cruise ship. Did I say never?

floating petri dishes, dumping their diseased excrement into the sea. shut them down - forever.

Last I heard you had to be vaxxed to get on a cruise ship. Sounds like it worked.

Cruise Ships Set Sail Knowing the Deadly Risk to Passengers and Crew

Since Christian believes that death can't be committed by self, so this would be a early path to heaven, a cruise to heaven?

The fact that anyone thinks going on a cruise during this pandemic just blows my mind. Yet common sense isn't so common nowadays.

Y E L L O W M E D I A

I would not get on one. No way

It's always those damn cruise ships. They breed disease.

nbc tweeting 30 minutes ago with an article that is 1 week old. I thought this was about a new outbreak- misleading and not timely.

I’ve never been on a cruise but 17 people out of 3,200 is about 0.5%. I would say that shows that 1-Vaccines work since it barely spread at all in that environment. 2-Whatever the cruise line is doing seems to be working pretty good. You aren’t getting zero that’s not realistic

Had not everyone been vaxxed, the situation would have been 100x worse

Or...... the mask and everything else don't work.

shocking

A big stick and a pot of 💰 at the end, to get me on one of those 🛳 and even then ❓😱

Saintsfan5348 Cruises have always been the Petri dishes of leisure even before covid so no fkn duh.

People have been getting sick on cruises well before Covid hit. These things are disgusting, floating virus bowls.

The are Petri dishes 🧫

Since late 2019, it hasn't been a good idea to go on a cruise.

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Duh

Real headscratcher there.

Duh.

These things are floating cesspools even before Covid

MorpheusBeing Cruise ships should be banned.

Just the flu.

If you go out in public and especially if you take a reckless vacation. You deserve to be charged with manslaughter. Vaxxed or unvaxxed.

I said the second that they opened up again that this would happen and thousands of people would get sick again. This does not surprise me sad yes but oh well

All members on the cruse were vaxxed ? ... So it doesn't work is what I'm gathering

Everyone on the ship was vaccinated, EVERYONE!

Are we panicking again about cruises?

If COVID-19 is anywhere, it is potentially everywhere. COVID-19 vaccines will save many lives.

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