first saw what cruise ships had to kind of go through and the levels of vaccination and the infection controls they had, i thought, this is a good thing. but let me tell you, if we start to see a pattern like we did with the original holiday cruise, any of the cruise lines that were in the 2020s causing people to be sealocked until they were quarantined, so i don t think this is overstepping by the cdc, this is exactly what we want the cdc to do. their job is to quarantine and isolate. you re just watching them do this in a much broader sense. a distinction between a cruise ship and an airplane, for example, is the ability to control, isolate, and also deal with circulation. believe it or not, air circulation on airplanes is incredible, that s why you don t see people benching the entire airline industry. when i had to work in the white house, we worked on cruise ship outbreaks of other types. so this is something the cdc has done before, it just hasn t gotten as much publicity.
our adolescents and young adults vac nated. while dr. fauci says it s likely children under 12 will have to wear masks in school next year, he s cautiously optimistic they will be eligible to be vaccinated by thanksgiving. we hope that as we approach the end of this calendar year we ll have enough information to vaccinate children of any age. meantime, cruise lines have started to announce sailing dates, cdc allowing sailings with 95% fully vaccinated passengers and crew. cruise lines based in florida are trying to figure out how the cdc rules will work with florida governor ron desantis recent ban on vaccine passports, which prevents businesses from requiring proof of a covid-19 vaccination. cruise ship outbreaks still remain a concern. if you re on a boat with unvaccinated people and you have a person who is infected, we
decision to turn back even though number of new cases spiked. many that are sick back up on their feet. they were unable to deliver the kind of vacation their passengers were expecting, patti ann. patti ann: do they have any idea what caused the outbreak? reporter: cdc officials boarded the ship in the caribbean and they have taken some samples. they expect the results to be ready by midweek. symptoms are pointing to norovirus, something we ve seen on cruise ship outbreaks in the past that produced these kind of symptoms but we won t know until wednesday really but right now royal caribbean is saying this ship will be thoroughly sanitized when it reaches port in new jersey before it goes out to sea again. patti ann? patti ann: steve harrigan, live in miami, thanks. jon: stamp prices are on the way up today. what it will now cost you to mail a first class letter. plus why the postal service filed a court challenge. we have the lowdown on all that. also investigators pouring over an