Thousands leave Miami cruise ship without screenings after former passenger got COVID-19

[babylonsister]

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/article241209366.html

Thousands leave Miami cruise ship without screenings after former passenger got COVID-19
By Taylor Dolven
March 15, 2020 03:11 PM


Despite a positive COVID-19 test from a passenger who had disembarked days earlier, thousands of people were allowed to leave a cruise ship in Miami Sunday without undergoing medical screening.

The former passenger got off the MSC Meraviglia in Miami on March 8 after an eight-day Caribbean cruise, leaving 103 passengers and the ship’s crew aboard for the next voyage. Four days later, after the ship had sailed with thousands of additional new passengers aboard, the Public Health Agency of Canada informed Broward-based MSC Cruises that the former passenger had tested positive.

Once it received the result, the company said it isolated seven crew members who had been in close contact with the passenger in individual cabins. But instead of holding the ship off the Florida coast and testing people on board for the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, MSC said U.S. health authorities cleared it to dock Sunday and disembark passengers as normal.

[BusyBeingBest]

1. They don't want another Grand Princess--they fucked that up so bad

they don't have the stomach to even try to do it again with another ship. Easier to just expose America to the virus than to try to do the right thing and at least test them.

[Ohiogal]

2. I have no words

[Stuart G]

3. My guess is that this decision was made by Trump himself..

Only someone not concerned about the well being of others, could possibly make such a decision...

Direct Quote, "...thousands of people were allowed to leave a cruise ship in Miami without undergoing medical screening....

Of course all needed to be screened and tested...All needed to be tested..

Who made this decision???...."U.S. health authorities cleared it to dock Sunday and disembark passengers as normal.......

When it is known who made this decision, and why..Trump will be responsible. You cannot get off a plane without being tested..(from Europe)...and this ship had people who were tested positive. Is that correct?

[superpatriotman]

4. Enough with the cruises

Enough with the Spring Break and theme parks and partying and vacations and all the other nonsense.

People need to stay home for a while.

[hedda_foil]

5. Three short years ago this would never have happened.

[dalton99a]

6. "Many went directly to Miami International Airport for flights home across the country."

Unbelievable

[malaise]

7. That ship was in Jamaica and Grand Cayman

The person who had the virus was a Canadian woman