As of this weekend, 100% of the cruise ships tracked by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention are crusing with cruise visitors and/or crew members who’ve examined optimistic for COVID-19. The Cruise Ship COVID-19 Dashboard maintained by the CDC reveals that of the ninety-six (96) cruise ships tracked by the CDC, six (6) cruise ships have instances of COVID-19 that are under the brink for CDC investigation and eighty-eight (88) cruise ships with instances which have met the CDC’s threshold for investigation.
The CDC’s dashboard reveals zero cruise ships with no COVID-19 or COVID-19-like instances. To repeat, there are completely no cruise ships designated as “inexperienced” by the CDC.
The edge for investigating COVID-19 on cruise ships crusing with passengers is 0.3% or extra of complete passengers and/or crew.
As the favored Cruzely web site reviews, nicely over half (almost 60 ships) had been inexperienced as not too long ago as mid-March.
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Not coincidentally we’ve heard from dozens of passengers and crew members who’ve reported that they’ve skilled COVID-19 outbreaks throughout their latest cruises, involving Royal Caribbean, Movie star, MSC, Virgin Voyages and Princess Cruises.
Jewel of the Seas
At the start of final week, on the Jewel of the Seas, which is at present crusing on a 12 -day cruise via Norway from June 20 to July 2, 2022, thirty-six (36) of 1,438 visitors examined optimistic. As well as, twenty-four (24) out of roughly 780 crew members examined optimistic.
Per week earlier, forty-six (46) visitors of the 1,750 passengers examined optimistic for COVID-19.
Beforehand, the ship’s officers expressed their concern that there was an rising pattern of optimistic COVID-19 instances on the ship, and reminded the crew that they had been required to put on masks on the ship. The state of affairs aboard the Jewel of the Seas illustrates a standard state of affairs on many cruse ships with the crew ordered to proceed to put on masks whereas the corporate doesn’t require masks for visitors.
On the finish of final month, a lot of senior officers on the Jewel of the Seas tested positive for COVID-19, together with the grasp in addition to the the ship’s employees captain and chief security officer.
As with different different posts relating to this specific cruise ship, a Royal Caribbean crew member who needs to stay nameless offered this data to the agency.
Island Princess
From an contaminated visitor on the Island Princess: “On June 13, 2022 between 200 and 250 passengers who examined optimistic for COVID-19 had been disembarked from the Island Princess in Southampton. We had been required to be quarantined for 5 (5) days in a lodge at Heathrow Airport. We had been offered a meal allowance and no additional assist. This was on back-to-back cruises, together with an 18-day Ft. Lauderdale 
to Southampton cruise (departing Might 27, 2022) and a16-day Southampton to Norway spherical journey cruise (departing June 13, 2022).”
MSC Seashore
A visitor from the MSC Seashore who sailed on the June 18 to 25, 2022 cruise, and examined optimistic for COVID-19, indicated that “half of the cabins” on deck 10 had visitors with COVID-19 (left).
Movie star Past
In line with a crew member who needs to stay nameless: “Movie star Past crew have a excessive variety of Covid instances onboard proper now. Over 3% of the 1200 crew. Folks being instructed to work further shifts and additional work to choose up for the crew 
which might be in isolation. The instances are rising on a regular basis nonetheless.
The corporate closed all crew areas so there isn’t any the place for the crew to go. Free shore depart has been taken away, now letting solely 150 crew at one day without work so long as numbers don’t proceed to rise in the event that they do all shore depart will likely be stopped.
Company from the earlier cruises additionally had a excessive variety of instances . . .
The corporate set a 15 minute time period to eat meals photograph proper).
Movie star don’t disclose the case numbers to visitors or crew at any time. We’ve all needed to discover out by phrase of mouth.”
Valiant Woman
Not less than 120 visitors had been reportedly contaminated on Virgin Voyages’ Valiant Woman, in keeping with a passenger who organized a gaggle to journey on the cruise ship earlier this month and examined optimistic proper after the cruise.
All Cruise Strains Are Affected As COVID-19 Surges Throughout the Cruise Trade
We have now acquired over a dozen messages from passengers and a few crew members relating to COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ship, together with s. Sadly, there isn’t any central database and neither the cruise traces nor the CDC disclose this fundamental data.
The cruise traces are all attempting to get rid of restrictions in an effort to enhance the occupancy of their ships and create revenue whereas the truth is that COVID-19 is surging on their ships.
The CDC Ought to Disclose The Variety of Visitor and Crew Members Contaminated with COVID-19
As we pointed our earlier this month, cruise passengers deciding whether or not it’s secure or prudent to take a cruise with their household on a selected cruise ship which simply had an outbreak, ought to have the ability to go to an official supply for correct data. They need to not need to scour the web or search via cruise chat rooms looking for out fundamental public well being data already reported by a cruise line to a federal well being company however not disclosed to the general public.
The U.S. public pays for the providers of the CDC and deserves transparency. The very last thing the general public wants is for the CDC to behave like a non-transparent cruise line (which pays no U.S. revenue taxes due to its international incorporation and registration of its ships outdoors of the U.S.) and maintain such public well being hazards secret.
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