Posted on 12/19/2021 2:44:47 PM PST by Capt. Tom
Forty-eight passengers and crew members tested positive for COVID-19 on Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas ship, which docked at PortMiami on Saturday, the cruise company said.
Miami-based Royal Caribbean said in a statement on Sunday that each person who tested positive immediately went into quarantine. Six people who had tested positive disembarked the ship mid-voyage and were transported home.
The passengers who tested positive were either asymptomatic or had mild symptoms.
The new cases come as the omicron variant is quickly spreading across the United States, potentially throwing a wrench in holiday travel plans. Royal Caribbean said that Symphony of Sea’s future trips would not be affected. The ship has left Miami for a new trip to Mexico, according to vesselfinder.com.
The ship that pulled into Miami on Saturday left port on Dec. 11 with 6,091 passengers and crew on board, 95% of whom were fully vaccinated. Of the 48 who tested positive for Covid-19, 98% were fully vaccinated.
The 48 confirmed cases may be a setback for the cruise industry, which has slowly restarted over the past six months.
Cruise industry leaders say that being on a cruise ship is the safest kind of vacation travelers can take at the moment because of the controlled environment where they can mandate vaccines. But breakthrough infections have the potential to put the industry in a bad spot again.
Cruises were COVID-19 hot spots at the onset of the pandemic, causing the industry to completely shut down for over a year. Many cruise lines had to take on massive debts while they were unable to make any revenue for the better part of a year.
This report will be updated.
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They will probably shut down cruises again shortly.
Even idiots will figure out....
All crew & passengers are vaxxed...... 48 cases of RONA !?!?
Does that mean the jabs don’t work?!?!?!
(Progressives pushing RONA)
SHUT ALL CRUISE LINES DOWN NOW!!!!
If they admit to 43 there must be 80+ and then theres the ones who knew or suspected they had the virus and managed to sneak of the ship when they docked ...as in kept their mouths shut and covered up any cough etc and just left (and theres lots of those)
unless they tested EVERYONE beforehand and the cruise lines arent doing that to the very special and entitled vaxxed passengers ... protocols are only for the unwashed and unvaxxed rabble ...
Meanwhile there were several ships in the yellow (had cases) last week ...
48 people caught a cold.
No that means thats the only number they will admit to it must be much higher ...
The ship has to get to a certain percentage of cases before she is ‘grounded’ by the CDC ‘laws’ and the ships arent sailing at full capacity ...
so if a few just walk off the ship the cruise lines arent going to be too concerned ...its about the bottom line money ...
as in pneumonia ???
or the bronchitis ??? The bronchial tubes ???
am I saying that right ???
Yep. You get punished for having a cold.
How many false positives?
Joe will never admit to that bamboo under his finger nails or water boarding wouldnt move him an inch ...
“And all were vaxxed, right?”
As far as I know ow you can’t get on a cruise ship without proof of ja covid shot....regardless of shipping line.
They are all in lockstep with the cdc.
A lot of good it did right?
Been on several but way before covid.....I’m good.
48 out of over 6,000 pax. Not too shabby.
It would be interesting to know cabin locations, etc. Also interesting to know whether Omicron and whether cases remain asymptomatic or mild.
Thanks for info re Omicron being upper respiratory tract only, Mom MD. It’s still early days, but reports from the UK sound promising so far (very low hospitalization rate).
98% fully vaxxed.
Vaccines are da bomb.
I like clicking on live cams
One is the Port of Miami
Last couple weeks I’ve noticed a lot more cruise ships sitting at the dock than there were 2 months ago
Which is better than taking a shot and participating in phase two of a new drug trial which last for a couple years. This phase was done on ferrets and other animals in the past.
And btw - we can’t know what is in the jabs or about the their testing for 50 year. And they can’t be sued for immediate of future injuries and death.
Frustrated - this is a joke. Medical professionals will have the onerous on them if they did not give informed consent.
When I watch those, all I can think is “no frigging way I’m getting on a boat with 5000 other people “
...and the people who hold tickets for future cruises, thinking that being vaccinated and tested meant they wouldn’t be treated as North Korean citizens on board.
Oh well, now they’ll be treated just that way (meaning masks indoors, always), and sorry, no refunds.
@ 32 -”48 out of over 6,000 pax. Not too shabby.”
That assumption is that all 6000 were exposed to enough viral load to cause infection. Reality may be around two hundred. But truly no one can know.
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