Just FYI, per the CDC guidelines, you only have to stay away from people for 5 days As long as you are fever free and symptoms are improving. And then wear a well fitting mask until day 10. You don’t have to keep testing.
This was school policy.
Oh ok. That’s seems a little odd but I guess day cares can do whatever. Bummer for y’all though.
The antigen tests may be missing some cases, but people are testing the week before and canceling before they cruise. If not required, they may not test. We lost five rooms from our Facebook group this week before we cruise.
But my point is the chances are still high you will be exposed at some point to a case on the ship. Maybe this is just a risk we should assume when cruising (like flu used to be).
Agree, but to me it is about degrees. Having people not testing at all because they don't want to know is a lot riskier than at least an antigen test to see if people are actively shedding. Plus it pushes more illness toward the end of the cruise/after the cruise, on cruises they don't have a lot of medical capacity for illness.
It sucked but is understandable considering the little kids aren’t vaccinated (yet) and don’t wear masks. I could have lied but felt wrong about it. My husband did go to the store after 5 days when he felt better. But I would have felt weird going to work at an office while I was still symptomatic and positive, and I was feeling "sick" way past 5 days (even though per CDC guidelines my symptoms were improving). Not sure how any CMs could go back to doing their high stress/busy jobs while only 5 days out from a similar case of Covid.
We finally tested positive after 2 years of dedicated isolation. We think it was from a restaurant. Our instructions for isolation were 5 days after the end of symptoms, not 5 days after a positive test. According to Health Canada most shedding of the virus happens 2-3 days before symptoms start! My sister tested positive for 10 days. I tested positive on a RA test at home then negative on a PCR test . After 7 days I was positive on a PCR test (I'm sorry but I was happy about it- the end of testing for our cruise) That was about 8 days after my sister. We live together. So how does port/48hr testing catch active cases?
It absolutely won't catch them all. But it does reduce them. We are down six staterooms in our Facebook group for cruise leaving next week. If I was a high risk individual, I wouldn't cruise.
My sister had Covid and had to go back to work after 5 days. She was still symptomatic but improving. She works at a pharmacy. I guess my point is that’s what most businesses are doing, high stress or not.
That's a generalization, and may be accurate for your area or the business you know. Many do have stronger rules in place about returning to work. I think some of it depends largely on the risk of potentially infecting others, which does no good to have 1 employee back after 5 days if it means 2 others then become ill and have to be out 5 days each. As it pertains to onboard... onboard has always been super-cautious about highly contagious illness -- norovirus was the "usual" expected culprit before covid. There is no value for a CM to return to their position if potentially infectious. Last I knew DCL was extra-cautious and the CMs had at least a 10-day quarantine regardless of how ill (or mild symptoms). The ship can't function with too many CMs ill, therefore a few extra days in quarantine to avoid spread is probably preferable than "CDC minimum recommendation."
I was never talking about CMs onboard a cruise ship. I would agree that is a totally different situation than other businesses. And you are right that was a generalization. I have made an assumption from my own person observations in different states and across different businesses (from hospitals to schools to retail) that it appears that most businesses have adopted the CDC guidelines (mostly because it would be easier for them). But maybe most haven’t and I have just seen the outliers. I am not opining on the appropriateness of utilizing whatever guidelines a business wants to use. Up to them.
DH just caught covid from me and his business would not allow him back onsite for 10 days after his positive test even if he tested negative at 5 days (both of us tested positive still on day 10 via rapid antigen).. They are also super strict though about tracing, quarantine, etc and have onsite rapid PCR. The CDC guidelines do mention if you have access you can do a rapid after 5 days and should continue to isolate until day 10 if it is still positive. Basically the CDC guidelines are taking in account staffing and economic issues of having such a long isolation in addition to the fact that most (but not all) spread is during the presymptomatic phase through 5 days of symptoms. But people can still be contagious and spread it after 5 days—hence the wearing a mask from day 6-10.
First time- in May right before cruise, probably why we were so sick, dodged it for years and then bam!
I wish I could have manifested that I didn't have it when I got back!
I was on the June 7th Dream cruise and tested positive after we returned. This was my first time having it.
Snap, I wish I would manifest my taste back! Sick of only tasting spicy or sweet and nothing else.
Mom and I were also on the Transatlantic. We actually did a B2B with the 3 night ahead of it. I did have it in January but mom had not . We tried to be as careful as possible. We wore masks as much as we could. We did not go to dinner every night. I brought many home tests with me and I was testing us every other day.
