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Passengers aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship on February 6, 2020, during a quarantine at Japan's Yokohama Port at the outset of the pandemic. The ship eventually had more than 700 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and became a symbol for the pandemic's crushing impact on the cruise industry. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Passengers aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship on February 6, 2020, during a quarantine at Japan's Yokohama Port at the outset of the pandemic. The ship eventually had more than 700 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and became a symbol for the pandemic's crushing impact on the cruise industry.
KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty ImagesThe CDC says that a new omicron variant called EG.5 is causing a summer wave of COVID cases.
Yet, COVID is nowhere near the threat that it was more than three years ago at the beginning of the pandemic.
And that might be one of the reasons that people are cruising again on big ships following a COVID-19 decline.
WLRN reporter Tom Hudson tells us how one of the hardest hit industries during the peak of the pandemic is trying to make a comeback.
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This episode was produced by Brianna Scott. It was edited by Adam Raney and Scott Hensley. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.
