What CDC Grading System Does & Doesn’t Mean For Cruise Ships

[Ocean Boy]

11 hours ago, Jasukkie said:

Not hard to find social media group discussions of numbers of people testing positive on their return home. I have no idea why this color coded business continues while souvenir cases are ignored. Do not take the color codes as any sort of reflection of your relative risk of catching covid on your sailing. 

 

I'm sitting on Allure right now with zero concern about either the ship's color code or catching covid.

[Biker19]

A slight improvement with the posting of Friday's info. Wonder dropped off the list and Adventure went green.

Edited April 25, 2022 by Biker19

[Biker19]

The latest crew arrivals turned Ovation yellow, Quantum was added to the list (incorrectly - listed as passenger carrying) as yellow even though she still a few days out from Seattle and with Odyssey on her TA she was dropped off the list.

Edited April 27, 2022 by Biker19

[Biker19]

The fleet is down to just one green ship - Serenade. Anthem, Jewel and Vision should drop off the list in the next few days as they are all on their TAs.

 

[Biker19]

No more green ships and only three are yellow.

[Sirlancelot]

On 6/19/2020 at 12:00 PM, Ocean Boy said:

Only one green ship. That is not encouraging.

Sure it is. Did you see how few people need to test positive for it to be yellow - .3% of the PAX. So 7 folks or so. Now do you feel btter

[broberts]

4 minutes ago, Sirlancelot said:

Sure it is. Did you see how few people need to test positive for it to be yellow - .3% of the PAX. So 7 folks or so. Now do you feel btter

 

It's not the small number that matters so much as the number of infections that result afterwards. Sadly we have no actual data that could inform us of how much more or less likely one is to be infected by cruising. 

[BND]

Actually what really matters is how many people get sick enough to be hospitalized.  That number is currently very, very low.  Counting cases doesn't really mean anything.  We keep hearing about how many cases, but haven't heard of people getting sick enough to require hospitalization after cruises because that number is almost non-existent in the vaccinated.

Edited May 14, 2022 by BND

[Ocean Boy]

3 hours ago, Sirlancelot said:

Sure it is. Did you see how few people need to test positive for it to be yellow - .3% of the PAX. So 7 folks or so. Now do you feel btter

Do I feel better? I'm feeling just fine. I barely even remember a post I made almost two years ago. 

[Biker19]

Only one ship in yellow:

 

[Jasukkie]

Facebook groups are where it's at for tracking positives, not that the CDC cares.  Doubtful you will ever see a ship go red because it's not really clearly defined what that means. 

 

[Biker19]

All ships in orange now.

[Biker19]

Not only are all RCI ships orange, all 95 ships listed are orange.

[SargassoPirate]

As long as the CDC counts positive tests as a "case", we'll never get to green with a virus that is here to stay.

 

The CDC just lifted Title 42 restrictions:

 

"After considering current public health conditions and an increased availability of tools to fight COVID-19 (such as highly effective vaccines and therapeutics), the CDC Director has determined that an Order suspending the right to introduce migrants into the United States is no longer necessary."

 

I guess those vaccines and therapeutics don't count for cruise ship passengers, just the folks mentioned in the CDC order.

 

 

[smokeybandit]

48 minutes ago, SargassoPirate said:

As long as the CDC counts positive tests as a "case", we'll never get to green with a virus that is here to stay.

Which is why the color codes are absolutely useless.

[Biker19]

6 hours ago, smokeybandit said:

Which is why the color codes are absolutely useless.

The CDC has a different explanation why they are getting rid of it:

 

The previous color-coding system under CDC’s COVID-19 Program for Cruise Ships depended upon each cruise line having the same COVID-19 screening testing standards, which may now vary among cruise lines. Therefore, the cruise ship color status webpage has been retired. CDC will continue to provide testing recommendations for cruise ship operators to follow and cruise ships will continue to report COVID-19 cases to CDC.