1/17/2022

The Centers for Disease Control report that every single cruise ship the agency is monitoring has reported at least one COVID case on board. At the same time, while some cruise lines have canceled sailings, nearly 220 cruise ships are continuing their itineraries.

One reason is the number of cases. Even the most number of cases reported on any one cruise ship — about 50 passengers —  occurred on a ship that was carrying 4,300 people.

That’s about a 1.5% caseload (not exactly an outbreak). And those passengers were also fully vaccinated and were either mild or asymptomatic cases. No one was hospitalized.

At the same time, the CDC has now made its COVID guidance optional for cruise lines and reduced quarantine periods to five days for those cruise ship passengers testing positive.