CDC drops COVID-19 health warning for cruise ship travelers

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that they will leave it up to vacationers to decide whether they feel safe getting on a ship.

"cruise ship travel health notice" that was first imposed in March 2020, after virus outbreaks on several ships around the world.More cruise ships under CDC investigation due to rising COVID cases

"While cruising will always pose some risk of COVID-19 transmission, travelers will make their own risk assessment when choosing to travel on a cruise ship, much like they do in all other travel settings," CDC spokesman Dave Daigle said in an email. Daigle said the CDC's decision was based on "the current state of the pandemic and decreases in COVID-19 cases onboard cruise ships over the past several weeks."

COVID-19 cases in the United States have been falling since mid-January, although the decline has slowed in recent weeks, and the current seven-day rolling average for daily new cases in the U.S. is roughly unchanged from two weeks ago, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. States have rolled back mask mandates, putting pressure on federal officials to ease virus-related restrictions.

 

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Cruise ships were having mass breakouts of illnesses before COVID, it's the last place I'd want to be with no vaccination requirements.

No way will I vacation on a ship. Many people are still not vaccinated. I am, even with a booster. I will not take any chances with people that l do not know. My opinion, my choice

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