The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) appealed to the Florida government’s ruling that cruises could continue without strict vaccination requirements, and also warned that lifting COVID-19 restrictions on cruise ships could leave the U.S. at risk for dangerous virus variants. The CDC’s Conditional Sailing Order (CSO) would simply become a recommendation or guidelines for sailing after 18JUL 2021 due to the Florida judge’s ruling, when he agreed with the state government that continuing the CSO would greatly harm the state’s economy. In its appeal, the CDC called the CSO “an important tool in ensuring that cruise ship operations do not exacerbate the spread of dangerous variants during this inflection point in the pandemic,” adding: “It does not shut down the cruise industry but instead provides a sensible, flexible framework for reopening, based on the best available scientific evidence.”
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