Originally Posted by
Badenoch
And another one. It seems the small ships are no guarantee of being COVID-free. From pleasure cruise to quarantine in one easy step.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2020...-for-covid-19/
The article doesn't say where the passengers and crew are quarantined but we can hope for their sake it is not on board.
The crew and passengers are spending their time in a local hotel
"Galloway said passengers will quarantine “at a local hotel while we work with local and state officials on the next steps with testing and contact tracing.”
The ship’s crew will quarantine aboard the Wilderness Adventurer, which will remain docked in Juneau."
The newest cruise infection stories show that 3 day turn around time for Covid testing is inadequate for monitoring Covid infections among the apparently healthy passenger. One needs rapid 15-45 minute turn around time and then you have to do it on a daily basis. If you decrease your sensitivity of the test slightly but increase it's frequency, you may be able to lower the number of false positives, which easily could have been why the above passenger tested positive.
Be that as it may, even with daily testing of all members on the cruise (with isolation of positive patients), without protocols for what to do with the positive patient who is or isn't sick sick is still lacking.
Even with an effective vaccine, cruises will still be in limbo until the international community gets it's act together on how to deal with a Covid infected passenger.