November 21 – Nearly a quarter of the crew of the U.S. Navy’s Missile destroyer Michael Murphy tested positive for COVID-19, citing unnamed naval officials by NBC on the 20th.
According to NBC, two U.S. military officials and one defense official said that the outbreak of COVID-19 broke out on the crew of the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy, causing most of the The crew was forced to leave the team and ashore, and the training plan was postponed.
Nearly a quarter of the crew of about 300 on board have tested positive for the coronavirus, these officials said. Those who tested positive have been ashore for quarantine and no one is hospitalized.
While many naval vessels, especially those anchored in the harbor, have also found small numbers of coronavirus cases among their crews, officials acknowledge that the proportion of positive cases of COVID-19 on the USS Michael Murphy is higher than on other ships.
On May 21st, local time, the USS Roosevelt appeared on the horizon of Agat Bay. According to reports, the U.S. Navy announced that the aircraft carrier Roosevelt made its first sea on May 20 nearly two months after it was docked in Guam due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
In March this year, the coronavirus outbreak broke out on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. According to the latest data published in the New England Journal of Medicine on November 11, nearly 27% of the 5,000 people on the aircraft carrier tested positive during the outbreak in March.
The data also shows that out of 1,271 people who tested positive, nearly 77% showed no symptoms at the time of testing, and 45% did not show any symptoms during the illness. About 2% were hospitalized, 0.3% were in intensive care, and one sailor died.
