# USN vessels covid update?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
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**Created:** [May 26, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usn-vessels-covid-update/854490 "2020-05-26T14:33:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usn-vessels-covid-update/854490/1 "2020-05-26T14:33:49Z")

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Several weeks back a few US navy vessels were waylaid with Covid-19 in the crew. I have not heard of any recent updates to the story. % of total crew infected, deaths per ship personnel, anything? They were spoken of as being great petri dishes for data on community spread at the time IIRC.

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**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usn-vessels-covid-update/854490/2 "2020-05-29T13:47:31Z")

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The most well-known case is that of the USS Theodore Roosevelt

> **[COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_USS_Theodore_Roosevelt)**
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> The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, was detected on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in March 2020 while she was at sea. Affected crew members were evacuated and the ship was ordered to Guam. The captain, Brett Crozier, wanted most of the crew to be removed from the ship to prevent the spread of the disease, but his superiors were reluctant. After several days Crozier e-mailed three of his superior officers and seven o...

Executive summary - The outbreak began in onboard in March, eventually about 1000 (out 4,500) tested positive. Several sailors were hospitalized, and one tragically lost his life. There was a brouhaha over how the captain handled it.

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**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usn-vessels-covid-update/854490/3 "2020-06-01T15:08:30Z")

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So in this case, one in four got infected. The rate obviously reduced by the crew getting off the ship and ashore in isolation. And of the thousand+ infected, one died.