50 test positive for coronavirus aboard Royal Caribbean ship

The Hill ^ | 22 December 2021 | JOSEPH CHOI

[blueplum]

Fifty people tested positive for COVID-19 aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that departed from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Saturday.

Royal Caribbean spokesperson Lyan Sierra-Caro confirmed to USA Today that 47 crew members and three passengers aboard the Odyssey of the Seas tested positive.

The ship, which is carrying 3,587 passengers and 1,599 crew members, is on an eight-day trip but briefly returned to port Sunday to disembark a passenger who had COVID-19....

[blueplum]

The cruise ship said they tested their crew 'weekly' but since almost all the cases were in crew, maybe they should be testing alternate days?

[SoConPubbie]

The cruise ship said they tested their crew 'weekly' but since almost all the cases were in crew, maybe they should be testing alternate days?

The real question you should be asking is were they vaccinated?!

[Ceebass]

The real question you should be asking is were they vaccinated?!.......

“During routine weekly testing of our fully vaccinated crew members, there were test results that came back positive for COVID-19,” Royal Caribbean said in a statement.

[bagster]

*GRUDGE PING*

Paging Cruise Boy. Pick up the white courtesy phone.

[Dogbert41]

Keep them all on board until camps can be made for them to disembark into.

[Dogbert41]

Or take them to Australia.

[equaviator]

Whatever happened to the benefits of direct exposure to sunlight while keeping the COVIDs away? Maybe those 50 people weren’t spending much time topside, when they could’ve been soaking up the sun.