Not too unsimilar to Disney Parks having to start a month later than Universal to get all the protocols in place. Or saying they won't do it unless there's enough revenue from it.
I don’t think I’ve seen it talked about formally anywhere, but would that meet the requirement for the CDC? Could the cruise lines be open without restrictions if they required all of the staff and customers to be vaccinated? I’m not sure if it’s legal yet to require workers to be vaccinated since the vaccines are not fully approved yet and are only under emergency use authorization. I suppose the cruise lines could also require a negative Covid test and 2 week quarantine for workers. Basically require them to board the ship 2 weeks ahead of any customers and show a negative Covid test before boarding and then make them quarantine in their room for 2 weeks including daily tests to ensure there’s no Covid on board.
For the US yes. But cruise lines operate all over the world. There are countries (departure ports and foreign cruise passengers) that won’t be fully vaccinated until 2022. Combined with the status of the ports the cruise ship calls on - it gets tricky.
Its looking good there. They still have a ways to go, but the decline has been steady for a few weeks now after a 2 week plateau of cases. It will be interesting to watch what happens there in the next few weeks. Hopefully the decline continues and they don’t have any setbacks. We are a little over a month behind them on out vaccination pace. We could be sitting where they are today come May 1 if people keep getting the jab.
Israel has been vaccinating 16 and over since February so it seems like it makes sense that they've reached a milestone with half of all Israelis vaccinated and why I think herd immunity has been reached. With the younger people spreading covid the most, we should've vaccinated them from the beginning like Israel
No we absolutely shouldn't have.
Depends on your desired end goal. If the only focus is on hospitalizations and deaths than it makes sense to start with the elderly and high risk. If your goal is to reduce overall cases as fast as possible then it makes sense to vaccinate the most likely to spread Covid first. I think the US approach worked pretty well. The first priority going to healthcare workers and nursing homes made the most sense. The next phase including the elderly, people with high risk medical conditions and certain higher exposure essential workers allowed for a blend of protecting the most vulnerable and at the same time reducing spread in groups likely to have a high level of exposure. So far it’s working pretty well although the rollout is mixed depending on where you live.
I can't imagine having a different first priority than reducing hospitalization and death.
There wasn’t a different first priority here unless I’m mistaken and some places did it differently. The issue comes in if you make that your only priority. I’ve seen numerous people say that once the elderly and high risk are vaccinated we are done and all restrictions can be removed and life can return to normal. That’s not a very good plan. We need to get a large number of people vaccinated to actually beat down the virus. Returning to “normal” while covid cases rage is risky and devastating for the economy.
None in FL. This was almost 365 days ago.
None at all. GoofGoof just linked one but if I remember correctly there was multiple ships around the world not being invited into port because of illness. Granted, that was back when everyone had no idea what to do but I’m thinking there still isn’t any ports that would want to deal with that.
It’s a tough balancing act between the economic benefit of having those cruise ports and the potential risk to your community if there’s a ship with multiple infected guests that get off and scatter into the community. I’m not sure enough time has passed yet for the general public to forget those images of the ships stranded off the coast looking for places to dock. It was not just FL, it was an international disaster. Remember too that once they got all of the passengers off the workers were stranded on some of those ships for weeks or months. I’m not a huge fan of cruising anyway, but I am in no hurry to see those issues return.
If it’s approved, Disney will allow you entry. If it’s good enough for the CDC/FDA it’s good enough for Disney.
