Trying to clarify its guidelines for allowing cruises to resume, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has muddied the waters. The health agency which has banned cruises from US ports for a year and still says cruising can never be zero risk, now says it is “committed” to allowing cruise operations at U.S. ports by mid-summer.

It is backing down from requiring that cruise lines do a series of test cruises to prove they can prevent coronavirus from getting on board and handle it if it does.

But now it says full vaccination will be required of most passengers and all crew—which raises some real questions. Does that mean turning way long-time cruisers who refuse to get a jab and banning children who currently aren’t eligible for vaccination?

Read it all in the Cruisington Times