Charles Robertson, ACL's CEO, said the riverboat operator is able to resume operations ahead of the cruise ships as capacity on most of their fleet's vessels falls under the 250-passenger limit covered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "no sail" order, which bars the big cruise ship operators from sailing until at least the end of July.They're planning to reduce occupancy, and are also not expecting to fill up those first cruises.
Also on the let's try that again front, on Friday the CDC attempted to clarify the recent wording change to their coronavirus fomite advice that made an unexpected media splash a week ago now. Unfortunately their clarification isn't any clearer, nor does it give any references for the "old" science that makes fomites and singing Happy Birthday less significant than they were in the public mind:
CDC actively reviews our website to make sure the content is accessible and clear for all types of audiences. As a result of one such review, edits were made to the organization of the COVID-19 transmission page, including adding a headline in an attempt to clarify other types of spread beyond person to person. This change was intended to make it easier to read, and was not a result of any new science.It's cities and towns day today, so
P.S. Massachusetts cases are up half a percent again today. Unfortunately, the promised improvements to the dashboard did not materialize, and instead the care facility information was taken out of the dashboard and put into the cities and towns data, which is now a massive PDF. At least the state bothered to put together some basic maps as part of the PDF (case counts, PCR test counts, and PCR positivity), and you will have to settle for those for the time being. The Boston Globe also has a basic map of case counts, with nicer colors but poorer scaling (and that's a hard bar to miss when it comes to the state's maps).
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