{"id":43487,"date":"2021-12-30T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T21:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43487"},"modified":"2021-12-30T17:49:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T01:49:16","slug":"cdc-says-avoid-cruise-ships-regardless-of-vaccination-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43487","title":{"rendered":"CDC SAYS AVOID CRUISE SHIPS REGARDLESS OF VACCINATION STATUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has advised Americans to avoid traveling by cruise ships regardless of their vaccination status amid a global surge of coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lzkqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmgqgdzk_wfldggvlvbdswfjddlsz.html?a=&amp;b=45830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lzkqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmgqgdzk_wfldggvlvbdswfjddlsz.html?a%3D%26b%3D45830&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1640998717174000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ZQ7VvKyzr0WoAJNLzZ3cE\">In a statement<\/a>\u00a0released Thursday, the health agency\u2019s COVID-19 Travel Health Notice updated the warning from level 3 to level 4, which is the health agency\u2019s highest level of warning.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said even people who are vaccinated and boosted are at risk of spreading the virus onboard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe virus that causes COVID-19 spreads easily between people in close quarters on board ships, and the chance of getting COVID-19 on cruise ships is very high, even if you are fully vaccinated and have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose,\u201d the CDC said in its statement.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC also recommended that those who have traveled on a cruise ship who are not vaccinated get vaccinated and receive their booster shot if eligible.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise lines reported 5,013 COVID-19 infections on ships operating in U.S. waters between Dec. 15 and 29, according to CDC data, a significant increase from the 162 cases reported over the prior two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Many cruise lines have implemented vaccine requirements, and ships have put in place mask rules for common areas as omicron has spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43488,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43487\/revisions\/43488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}