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May 27, 2021, 9:03 AM
As CDC clears 1st cruise line to sail in U.S. waters, industry banks on vaccines for a post-COVID rebound
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Updated May 27, 2021 9:10 AM EDT
Southampton, England — Royal Caribbean has become the first cruise line to get approval from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to sail in U.S. waters after more than a year of devastating, COVID-19-induced shutdown for the American cruise industry. The first ship will leave from Florida next month — carrying only fully-vaccinated passengers and crew, even though the state has banned so-called vaccine passports.
But as CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, cruise ships are already on the move in Europe.