"In March 2020, the Miami New Times reported that managers at Norwegian Cruise Line had prepared a set of responses intended to convince wary customers to book cruises, including ""blatantly false"" claims that the coronavirus ""can only survive in cold temperatures, so the Caribbean is a fantastic choice for your next cruise"", that ""[s]cientists and medical professionals have confirmed that the warm weather of the spring will be the end of the [c]oronavirus"", and that the virus ""cannot live in the amazingly warm and tropical temperatures that your cruise will be sailing to""."