CDC Lifts Warning on Cruise Ship Travel

By Robert Preidt and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters

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THURSDAY, March 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A two-year advisory that warned Americans in opposition to happening cruises has been dropped by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The company first warned Americans in opposition to cruise ship journey in 2020 on the top of the pandemic, and final yr stated there was an elevated danger of getting contaminated when on the crowded vessels, CBS News reported.

“While cruising will at all times pose some danger of COVID-19 transmission, vacationers will make their very own danger evaluation when selecting to journey on a cruise ship, very like they do in all different journey settings,” in line with a CDC assertion issued Wednesday.

The company nonetheless advises passengers to get up-to-date vaccinations earlier than boarding a cruise ship, and it suggests vacationers seek the advice of with a health care provider in the event that they’re immunocompromised or at greater danger for extreme sickness.

The CDC’s choice to raise the journey advisory “acknowledges the efficient public well being measures in place on cruise ships and begins to degree the enjoying subject, between cruise and equally located venues on land, for the primary time since March 2020,” business group Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) stated in a press release.

Earlier this yr, Carnival, Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean lifted their masks mandates as COVID-related circumstances and deaths declined throughout the United States, CBS News reported.

Last summer season, cruise strains added vaccination and testing necessities to ships that set sail from U.S. ports. But the necessities have not prevented passengers from catching the virus: An unknown variety of passengers and crew members aboard a Princess Cruise ship in California examined optimistic final weekend whereas taking a 15-day cruise to the Panama Canal.

Cruise strains had been rife with COVID-19 outbreaks within the early days of the pandemic. The variety of folks reserving cruises plummeted throughout the pandemic and cruise firms collectively misplaced $63 billion and shed 1000’s of jobs in 2020 and 2021, CBS News reported.

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Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for extra on COVID and cruise ship journey.

SOURCE: CBS News

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