The CDC advised Americans to avoid cruises as COVID cases rise across the country, because Omicron could be highly transmissible in the confines of a ship.
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning Thursday that people should avoid cruise ships because of the risk for COVID infection while onboard, Royal Caribbean and Carnival cruise lines released statements highlighting the health and safety standards they are held to, and insisting cruises pose no higher risk than other forms of travel.
"Our enhanced health and safety protocols have proven to be effective time and time again over the past year," Frizzell said. The decision"is particularly perplexing considering that cases identified on cruise ships consistently make up a very slim minority of the total population onboard," a statement said."The majority of those cases are asymptomatic or mild in nature, posing little to no burden on medical resources onboard or onshore."
Omicron has sent cases skyrocketing to unprecedented levels across the U.S., including Florida, the hub of the nation's cruise industry. The state set another record this week for new daily cases, with more than 58,000 recorded Wednesday.
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