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As talk in America turns from preventing COVID-19 infection to administering the COVID-19 vaccine, all eyes are on cruise lines to see what their policy will be on a return to cruising. Will cruise lines require a vaccine for passengers? We got some clarity on that issue recently from American Queen Steamboat Company, one of the country’s premier river cruise lines. The cruise line, along with sister company Victory Cruise Lines, became one of the first cruise operators to definitely say that proof of vaccination will be required to step onboard.
John Waggoner, Chairman & CEO of American Queen Steamboat Company joined
The new travel reality: Vaccine required
Some cruise companies are now mandating that passengers be vaccinated. Could airlines and countries be next?
By Christopher Muther Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
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The beleaguered travel industry is pinning its hopes on vaccinations, and vaccination passports, to help return to profitability.Ali Cobanoglu/Handout
You donât need to be Nostradamus to foresee how the travel industry plans to win back the trust and confidence of skittish vacationers who have scuttled plans for the past year due to COVID-19. It involves a needle, inoculation, and then proof that a vaccine has been administered.
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Fully vaccinated travelers (from the EU) will be able to skip quarantine in Iceland.It’s been just over two months since the U.S. began distributing the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for COVID-19, and since that time more than 64 million doses have been administered, according to the CDC’s vaccination tracker.
At the current rate of about 840,000 doses being administered each day on average, 75 percent of the U.S. population should receive their first vaccine dose by October 2021, according to an interactive Reuters COVID-19 vaccine tracking tool. Right now, more than 13 percent of the U.S. population has received at least one dose. Estimates on when we might reach herd immunity, when enough people are immune to the virus so that it can’t spread, vary between as early as this spring and as late as this fall.