It’s been regularly publishing COVID-19 data statewide on online dashboards of its own since the pandemic began. That leaves the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. The Coast Guard has not made anyone available for an interview about this. The CDC’s description of its cruise ship program also says the Coast Guard is supposed to get the most timely information about illness before ships arrive in a port. “In the event that we can’t, then each line is required in the agreement to transport impacted passengers and/or crew to Seattle.” “But occasionally, occasionally we can assist,” Barr said. Barr said the agreements this year say that medical facilities in the bigger ports like Juneau, Ketchikan and Whittier could help out if the need arises. Cruise passengers and crew aren’t supposed to burden local health care systems. Like last year, the cruise lines have made a lot of commitments to Alaska port communities to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and to manage cases themselves. The CDC has not made anyone available for an interview about its cruise ship program. However, Carnival told Seattle press that there were no serious health issues and that it maintained its health and safety protocols. Some of the Spirit’s recent passengers described a poorly managed COVID-19 outbreak that did overwhelm the crew. The CDC’s most severe category for cruise ships is red, which indicates the medical capacity onboard is overwhelmed. The CDC says that scientists monitoring the effectiveness of the vaccines have seen protection against infection wane over time, but protection from severe cases that lead to hospitalizations persists. That’s higher than the populations of the communities they’re visiting. Over 90 percent of the passengers and crew on cruise ships are vaccinated. “And thankfully, we’re not seeing hospital impact significantly, locally or more broadly.” Nowadays, hospitalization rates are a key metric he’s keeping an eye on. COVID is kind of prevalent everywhere right now,” said Juneau Deputy City Manager Robert Barr. The majority of the ships sailing right now are in that category. That could mean as few as seven passengers are sick - or it could be hundreds. The Carnival Spirit has been in the orange category. Green means they have no cases of COVID-19 or COVID-like illnesses.
#COVID ON CRUISE SHIPS 2022 UPDATE#
The CDC does publish and update daily a color-coded cruise ship status on its website for each ship. But the CDC isn’t doing that for cruise ships. That hasn’t stopped state health authorities from publishing individual communities’ overall case counts, hospitalization figures, hospital capacity, deaths or other stats helpful for gauging COVID-19 risk. Individuals’ health information is protected. They’ve agreed to fill out and send a form every day for every ship so the CDC can track COVID-19 cases on board. This year, the cruise lines operating all of the big ships in Alaska committed to regularly report illness data by opting into the CDC’s COVID-19 Program for Cruise Ships. But very little of that information is available to the public for the Spirit, or any of the ships operating in Alaska this summer. Coast Guard and the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services should all have good data about the COVID situation on board on any given day. If its crew are following protocol, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. That ship, the Carnival Spirit, is now cruising between Seattle and Southeast Alaska for the summer. Carnival downplayed the situation with Seattle press, but wouldn’t disclose the case count. One passenger on a recent Carnival cruise bound for Seattle claimed there were about 200 people sick with COVID-19 on board, and that the crew were overwhelmed. The first passengers of the 2022 cruise ship season walk off the Norwegian Bliss and into Juneau on April 25, 2022.
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