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As aircraft carrier heads back to sea after coronavirus outbreak, no guarantees the virus is gone
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The USS Theodore Roosevelt departs Apra Harbor at Naval Base Guam on Thursday, following an extended visit in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic. (Staff Sgt. Jordan E. Gilbert/U.S. Marine Corps/AP)
By
Dan Lamothe
May 21, 2020 at 11:16 a.m. CDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/05/21/aircraft-carrier-heads-back-sea-after-coronavirus-outbreak-no-guarantees-virus-is-gone/
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The USS Theodore Roosevelt departed Naval Base Guam on Thursday, in anticipation of needed qualifying landings for pilots on the 1,093-foot ship. The Navys top officer, Adm. Mike Gilday, asked how he could be confident there will not be an additional outbreak aboard, asked for a different perspective.
The carrier, with a crew of about 4,900 sailors, is returning to sea after the virus first appeared on the ship in March and rapidly spread through the crew. The ship pulled into port in Guam at the end of the month, and more than 1,100 sailors eventually tested positive, including one who died.
Gilday acknowledged 14 sailors who previously tested negative for the virus developed flu-like symptoms after returning to the ship and have been placed in quarantine again. The Navy, he said, is still understanding the incubation period for the virus and is preparing for the possibility of dealing with the coronavirus beyond 2020.
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Gilday said a few hundred sailors from the Theodore Roosevelts crew are still in Guam recovering from the virus, and Navy officials are working to understand when those individuals are no longer contagious. Some of those sailors will rejoin the ship after the aircraft qualifications are complete in a few days, he said.
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drray23
(7,627 posts)and after one review recommending that he be reinstated, another review was called further delaying that.
marble falls
(57,056 posts)carrier command. I jumped the gun!