MIAMI — Jennifer Chatham, a real estate agent who splits her time between Miami and Houston, recently took her third Carnival cruise during the pandemic.
Her first two cruises, in September 2021 and January this year, were without incident. Then in April on an eight-night cruise around the Caribbean on Carnival Horizon, she tested positive for the coronavirus on day six.
“I don’t think that people really understand what they’re getting into when they’re going on a cruise. I didn’t understand what I was getting into,” she said, noting she was extremely ill with COVID-19 and left alone in an isolated cabin with no one checking on her. “I really, really hate to say it, Carnival has been my ship that I’ve cruised with for a long time, but I wish I had had a more positive experience when I was sick.
