When will the cruises return to port?
AaaaaaAAAAAAAGH. Photo: Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images Well, the cruises have done it again: They insist on getting back out on the water, then wind up trailing coronavirus outbreaks in their wake. It has been the same story since the pandemic began; indeed, in the earliest days of 2020, cruise ships facilitated viral spread as they pinged between ports all over the world, cycling throngs of international passengers through the same closed spaces.
According to the New York Times, the Carnival Vista charted 27 infections over a two-week stretch between July and August — among the highest infection rates for any single vessel since the cruises picked back up for the summer. Despite allegedly swift isolation, 77-year-old passenger Marilyn Tackett of Oklahoma had to be placed on a ventilator in Belize, and ultimately died on August 14 after being evacuated to a hospital in Oklahoma.
Though it feels hard to say for sure where Tackett’s infection came from, it maybe bears noting that her ship left a Texas county with a high infection rate, in a state with a high infection rate and a governor-ordered ban on mask and vaccination requirements . Per the Times, 56 percent of Texas residents remain unvaccinated, just to give some context for Carnival’s launch point.
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