The Carnival Cruise ship “Liberty” is docked at Port Canaveral, Fla., as crew members get vaccinated for COVID-19, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. The crew received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from a team of nurses staffed from Parrish Medical Center in Titusville. More crews from other ships are scheduled to receive the vaccinations in coming days, including a Royal Caribbean crew next week. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
One of Florida's biggest industries is warning Gov. Ron DeSantis about the repercussions of a law he signed forbidding businesses from asking customers whether they've been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Cruise ship operators say the order will make it make it harder for them to safely return to the seas, possibly imperiling a major economic driver in the state. The ships sail out of Florida's large southern ports.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the okay Wednesday for a trial run on restarting cruises. The approval comes more than a year after the massive ships became some of the first superspreader locations for the coronavirus.
DeSantis, who is considering a presidential bid in 2024, has been among Republicans fighting with companies that they say undermine American values. The battles are at odds with traditional conservative values such as free-market capitalism.
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