How many have Covid after Queen Anne H420, 18th-28th Aug 24?

[Colin_Cameron]

We were on this cruise and have been OK (so far). But we have taken the precaution of not visiting a friend in hospital until Monday.

[Pear Carr]

Not sure of the purpose of this enquiry.  Are you suggesting it is Cunard’s fault? Such is life in these times post covid and you take a chance wherever you visit/socialise/holiday.  As stated this is airborne and your vigilant hand washing will have hopefully protected you from a stomach bug.  Are you so ill that it will stop you from travelling and socialising anywhere in the future? Hope you make a speedy recovery.

[Shingles Mark]

I had Covid on QA to Iceland in July . To be honest I was expecting to catch it as some friends had caught it on Princess round UK cruise earlier, and it seems everyone has it atm. 
Thankfully it was just annoying cold like symptoms ( I have a compromised immune system after a bone marrow transplant) . I reported it to the medical centre and I happily isolated for a few days with room service. I can’t say it ruined my cruise but I was unable to enjoy the Iceland ports of call fully . Despite only having mild symptoms it did leave me very fatigued for few weeks. 
Feeling back to normal now , I may even go for a run tomorrow 😉

[TowandaUK]

When I was a ward clerk in our local hospital we were advised to wash hands with soap and water and not to rely on sanitisers. We had several instances of noro on the ward but I never got it as I washed my hands frequently. 

[Dermotsgirl]

2 hours ago, Victoria2 said:

and what about those who can't use the sanitizer. I have been visiting a friend in hospital and for the first few visits, used the hand sanitizers which are all over the hospital. Within two days my skin started breaking down and now I am on a concentrated effort to repair the damage which could take weeks.

There comes a time when one has to take personal responsibility and not rely on others. Hand washing is the key. Sanitizers give a false sense of security.

 

Live life, press buttons, use the lift and use stair rails so 'you' don't trip and wash hands. Life is too transitory to go with any what if scenario and I speak as a 5 %'er who knows one day, we will catch Covid but as we're jabbed up to the eyeballs, hopefully, it will be a mild case.

Sanitiser brings me out in a terrible rash, so I avoid it as much as possible. But I am scrupulous with hand washing, and avoid touching random surfaces. As Pushpit says, this is a defence for things like Norovirus, but not for airborne viruses like Covid. 

[D&N]

I had a very faint line on my day nine test this morning, and my wife on her day eight test. Apart from a few days of a burning sore throat (Nora didn't get that), my first encounter with Covid was just like a strong cold. I suffered colds in January and November 2023. I tested negative during both those illnesses and they are the only respiratory illnesses either of us has experienced since long before Covid.

In my case the only explanation is that my neighbour, a hospital worker, was asymptomatic and I spent a while six days before I suffered symptoms being shown where everything was in their place in order to feed their ageing cat for a few days.

Since early 2020 we've isolated, masked, distanced, gone to large group meetings, eaten out as a couple and with friends. travelled on buses, trains, planes, taxis, and spent two weeks on QM2, and all sorts of other normal things. All that time we've prepared to deal with Covid and never had to do so. Catching it now was a surprise, but the plans were implemented and I have no doubt that within another few days it will have been left behind with no lasting effects.

It's yet another chapter in our remarkable run of luck; there are so many things that we have happening in the next three months that it could have disrupted, but it happened when nothing important was going on!

On our next two fourteen night trips on QM2 we will still not use the lifts, which eliminates the prospect of sharing that confined space with others, besides I would feel incredibly lazy if I used them, and hopefully if we do pick it up it won't last as long as this being our first.

 

Oh, I didn't touch my neighbour or anything other than his keys until well after they had vacated the premises for their holiday. So it must have been airborne transmission.

 

But if you choose to go anywhere that there are other people you run the risk of being infected with something.

[alc13]

5 hours ago, Pushpit said:

We know from people in hospitals who take Lateral Flow tests daily that symptoms show on LF kits typically day 3 or 4 of the infection. They can show on day 2, but the current variants rarely do so. So yes, that sounds like either your final day on board, or someone else you met that day, or the day after. Mostly you will know the person that infected you.

Are lateral flow tests still considered to be good indicators of infectiousness?  

[Pushpit]

22 minutes ago, alc13 said:

Are lateral flow tests still considered to be good indicators of infectiousness?  

Yes. We've tended to find out about faulty PCR equipment from lateral flow kits, rather than vice-versa. Plus if you take several of them during the course of an infection you will see your line start to fade over time, which is impractical with a PCR, and tends to bring comfort to those infected. It's not perfect, but it is practical.

[QA24]

Was on Queen Anne to Iceland in July after not cruising for many years. Was shocked by the amount of people openly coughing their guts up without covering their mouths. Said to other half on day 3 it felt like a plague ship. Managed to avoid it until the last day when I had flu like symptoms and did a test when we got home which confirmed it. There was a very old demographic on board and it just felt like they'd learned nothing from the pandemic. Really liked the ship overall but would avoid the theatre and coach trips next time.

[jrmende63]

We are sailing in 4.5 weeks on Queen Anne. We  just got our flu shot and covid shot to try to be proactive. We will enjoy our trip. 
 I am a retired RN and worked in a hospital during Covid. 
I had Covid once while on a cruise ship. No symptoms.  I tested to fly back to US. Positive. Bought me 10 days in the hotel room on isolation. So I was in London and hubby was in US. ( this cruise we both get to see London! And fly together! ) 

[Victoria2]

We were also on the Iceland trip but we didn't go to the theatre very often and sat right at the back if we did, didn't go on any tours and arranged private transport to and from Southampton.

We used the lifts a lot though.

No Covid here or for friends who were also on the cruise.

Bad luck of the draw it seems.

[Host Hattie]

Please note that our Covid Discussion Policy is still in effect-

 

We will welcome information on COVID policies RELATED TO CRUISE. Things like:

 vaccination policies issued by individual cruise lines, venues or destinations,

 cleaning or distancing procedures in use, practical tips for cruisers or things they might need to know that are different from ports of call to embarkation ports are all valid topics.

official policies issued by cruise line, travel destinations, airlines, etc. regarding requirements for boarding or shore excursions can be shared. This information needs to be on-topic for the specific forum and thread where posted.

[buchanan101]

On 8/31/2024 at 2:37 PM, Ukulele girl said:

After a lovely holiday on QA I have tested positive for Covid today. Not been well since disembarking on Wednesday but assumed it was a cold as I have never had Covid before. I am part of a well known social media group for this cruise and many of them have also tested positive. The use of sanitiser or hand washing facilities was almost non existent and this is obviously the outcome. I am paranoic about not using handrails, hardly used the lifts and use sanitiser everywhere and wash my hands (happy birthday twice) with soap very frequently whilst on board. Our last cruise on QE to Alaska in 2022 gave my husband Covid for the first time with dire consequences and now I have caught it on this one. I think our cruising days are probably over. 

 

Has anyone else who was on the cruise caught it?  

It's mostly caught through being airborne - hand sanitiser wouldn't have saved you. 

 

Hope you are OK - I get whatever vaccines I can to reduce impact; we will be catching it for years as people seem to think it's all over...

[babs135]

Fortunately both of us plus our daughter did not contract the virus.  Is it possible that you or someone in your group picked it up during one of the port visits rather than on the ship itself?  Mask wearing was even less than we've noticed on previous occasions.

However, Covid is a strange beast; on our last cruise which was on the Victoria we again shared the cabin with our adult daughter.  She was with us 24/7 and then in the car on the home journey to Manchester.  24 hours later she tested positive and we did not, continuing to test on and off for a week.  Why she got it and we didn't is a mystery.

[QA24]

On one of our tours, the couple in the seats behind us were coughing all the time. There's nothing you can do about that and being on there for an extended time wasn't a pleasant experience.  Will be making my own arrangements for ports in future to mitigate the risk. Standing at the back out of the way is the only option for the theatre as it's not really big enough for the amount of people who want to watch. People were sat and standing in the isles for the Clive Myrie talks and I was sitting at the end of a row and had a lady stood holding onto my seat and standing over me who had a pile of tissues stuck under her nose and was sniffing and coughing the whole time. Wouldn't put myself through that again and probably caught the bug in one of those instances. Think most of the bars have quite good spacing and it seemed the Queens room was the main one for overcrowding but didn't go in there when it was busy. Next cruise I'll be doing things differently and hopefully will be OK. It's not Cunards fault. It comes down to the people on board and their attitudes. 

[exlondoner]

3 minutes ago, QA24 said:

On one of our tours, the couple in the seats behind us were coughing all the time. There's nothing you can do about that and being on there for an extended time wasn't a pleasant experience.  Will be making my own arrangements for ports in future to mitigate the risk. Standing at the back out of the way is the only option for the theatre as it's not really big enough for the amount of people who want to watch. People were sat and standing in the isles for the Clive Myrie talks and I was sitting at the end of a row and had a lady stood holding onto my seat and standing over me who had a pile of tissues stuck under her nose and was sniffing and coughing the whole time. Wouldn't put myself through that again and probably caught the bug in one of those instances. Think most of the bars have quite good spacing and it seemed the Queens room was the main one for overcrowding but didn't go in there when it was busy. Next cruise I'll be doing things differently and hopefully will be OK. It's not Cunards fault. It comes down to the people on board and their attitudes. 

I think if Cunard allow people to sit and stand in the aisles in the theatre, it is partly their fault. Surely that must be against every conceivable safety regulation, not in terms of Covid but in terms of rapid evacuation in case of fire or other emergency.

[QA24]

9 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

I think if Cunard allow people to sit and stand in the aisles in the theatre, it is partly their fault. Surely that must be against every conceivable safety regulation, not in terms of Covid but in terms of rapid evacuation in case of fire or other emergency.

 

[QA24]

They did make an announcement to that effect on safety and asked people to watch on the screens in the pub or on the cabin tv. All the people ignored it and stayed in place. Yes, Cunard should have been more forceful and we mentioned this on the post cruise questionnaire. Ultimately though, it's still down to the people who only think of themselves and just do what they want with no respect to anything else.

[exlondoner]

2 minutes ago, QA24 said:

They did make an announcement to that effect on safety and asked people to watch on the screens in the pub or on the cabin tv. All the people ignored it and stayed in place. Yes, Cunard should have been more forceful and we mentioned this on the post cruise questionnaire. Ultimately though, it's still down to the people who only think of themselves and just do what they want with no respect to anything else.

If that is the standard of behaviour, let us hope we never have to take to the boats.

[fabnfortysomething]

we were  on same cruise and healthy throughout

 

we avoided crowded areas such as theatre and Golden Lion during quiz time!

an occasional person was wearing a face mask but it ws the exception

theres no foolproof way to avoid Covid unless go back to self isolation and I'm sure no one wants to go back to that!

[Victoria2]

9 hours ago, QA24 said:

They did make an announcement to that effect on safety and asked people to watch on the screens in the pub or on the cabin tv. All the people ignored it and stayed in place. Yes, Cunard should have been more forceful and we mentioned this on the post cruise questionnaire. Ultimately though, it's still down to the people who only think of themselves and just do what they want with no respect to anything else.

We watched all the lectures in our cabin. I guess it saved us being spluttered over!

[Jim_Iain]

On 8/31/2024 at 3:49 PM, alc13 said:

Are lateral flow tests still considered to be good indicators of infectiousness?  

I've found the very responsive.    About 2 months ago I had a weird headache and decided to test out of abundance of caution.   I tested positive.    I had my partner test and he tested negative.  

 

I had Zero other symptoms and fully up to date on vaccinations and boosters.... about every 4 months as recommended by CDC for my age group.  The protocol is totally different now and the Doctor's office told me to isolate until no fever for 24 hours.   Since I had no fever she told me to isolate for 1 day.     I never had any other symptoms ---

 

Next day I tested again using a different brand and tested positive again.   I decided to self isolate and wear a mask.

 

[jrmende63]

3 hours ago, Victoria2 said:

We watched all the lectures in our cabin. I guess it saved us being spluttered over!

I was not aware one could watch from the cabin. Thank you for the info. 

[BklynBoy8]

1 hour ago, jrmende63 said:

I was not aware one could watch from the cabin. Thank you for the info. 

 

Believe are repeats...

[Winifred 22]

7 hours ago, jrmende63 said:

I was not aware one could watch from the cabin. Thank you for the info. 

Yes and on QA you can choose the lecture you want and save it for the duration of the crossing.On the others they are on a continuous loop from the day before only. Another win for QA.