Nearly 50 Royal Caribbean passengers test positive for COVID in setback for cruise industry

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Ninety-eight percent of those who tested positive were vaccinated, and they have so far experienced only mild or no symptoms.

The outbreak comes as coronavirus cases spike in the United States, and the fast-spreading Omicron variant leaves the future of the pandemic uncertain.

Royal Caribbean reported that nearly 50 people aboard the Symphony of the Seas, above, have tested positive for COVID-19, in a setback for the cruise industry.On Saturday, the United States had a seven-day average of 125,775 new cases per day, up from 88,229 one month earlier, according to data from theHealth experts believe cases will only continue to rise in the coming weeks as the Omicron variant takes hold in the Untied States.

Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, warned during a Sunday interview with National Public Radio that the United States could"Even if it has a somewhat lower risk of severity, we could be having a million cases a day if we're not really attentive to all of those mitigation strategies," Collins warned.

 

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So they have minor colds at worse and this is a 'setback for the industry?' Most of them probably have diarrhea from eating like shit on their cruise that is worse than the covid.

When everyone above 12 required a vaccine, of course the % with covid is going to be mostly vaccinated..

Lol what setback not even 1% got infected on a ship of 6000. Show me anywhere else this level of control. Bye

Lulz

no symptoms? that's interesting...

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