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One, three. Wondry. I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Thursday, May 14th.

Some of the most sensational and tragic examples of the spread of COVID-19 occurred on

cruise ships. 800 people on board carnivals Diamond Princess were infected and 10 died, according to NPR.

That's the ship that had the first known outbreak of COVID-19, the one that was stranded off the

coast of Japan in February. The cruise industry halted all new cruises on March 13th.

A day later, the CDC issued a no-sale order, recently extended through July 24th. Still tens of

thousands of crew members on multiple cruise lines have been stuck at sea for weeks.

Operators have been struggling to comply with public health regulations for disembarking them safely.

In total, more than 2,700 people on cruise ships across the globe were infected and at least 74

died, according to an investigation by the Miami Herald.

It would hardly be any surprised if the pandemic had dealt a near-death blow to the $50 billion

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