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Safety at sea Sea change


Cruise ships were among the most high-profile casualties of coronavirus as several vessels became major sites for transmission. But with mass vaccination on the horizon, how do operators plan on maintaining safety practices and restoring passenger confidence? Andrea Valentino chats to Dr Calvin Johnson, the new chief medical officer at Royal Caribbean, and Dennis Peyton, director of Vikand’s public health practice, about what operators are doing to keep passengers secure, the challenges of controlling a virulent disease at close quarters – and why heightened health measures are likely to persist even once we’re all vaccinated.


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or centuries, disease has been as unavoidable to seaborne life as the waves and the wind and the surf. After all, the ancient Egyptians and Greeks wrote despairingly about scurvy – a particularly nasty marine illness that, by the Age of Discovery, was killing thousands of sailors every year. Other ailments, for their part, spread quickly in the cramped cabins and fetid latrines of oceangoing vessels. Even in the 19th century, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox and typhoid were all common at sea. On some convict vessels, the rotting hulks carrying British criminals to Australia, the death rate was one in three.


Happily, conditions at sea are far more salubrious nowadays. Yet as recent experiences show, diseases can still spread rapidly – even with all the ranks of modern medical science arrayed against them. Over just a few weeks in February 2020, for instance, nearly 20% of the crew and passengers of the Diamond Princess, a Carnival ship, were infected with coronavirus. Around the same time, the Ruby Princess (another Carnival ship) saw 900 people infected with the disease off the coast of Australia, with 28 deaths ultimately linked to the outbreak.


World Cruise Industry Review / www.worldcruiseindustryreview.com


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