For the second time this month, a cruise ship with fully vaccinated adult passengers and crew detected a COVID-19 outbreak.
By Tyler Durden: Forty-eight
people aboard a Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas, the world's
largest cruise ship, tested positive for COVID on Saturday after
returning from a week-long cruise.
"Everyone
who tested positive was asymptomatic or had mild symptoms, and we
continuously monitored their health," Royal Caribbean told NBC Miami. "Each person quickly went into quarantine," the statement said.
Royal Caribbean's health policy requires all adults to be vaxxed with
at least two shots of Pfizer or Moderna or one shot of the Johnson
& Johnson vaccine. The outbreak represents 0.78% of the 6,091
passengers and crew who left Miami on Dec. 11 and sailed to Caribbean
ports St. Maarten, St. Thomas, and Royal Caribbean's private island,
CocoCay. The cruise ship returned to homeport on Dec. 18.
Cruise
ships have been lauded as one of the safest vacations due to their
strict health policies of only allowing vaxxed adults -- but as the
vaccine efficacy wanes, that appears not to be the case.