Another U.S. Aircraft Carrier Has Been Struck With The Covid-19 Coronavirus

Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush have tested positive for COVID-19. The ship is shown here in 2013. (Navy)

Navy Times: ‘A small number’ of carrier George HW Bush sailors test positive for COVID-19

Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush have tested positive for COVID-19 this summer, but Navy officials are declining to say how many have contracted the novel coronavirus or when the infections were detected.

“A small number of Sailors have been diagnosed with COVID this summer,” Cmdr. Jennifer Cragg, a spokeswoman for Naval Air Force Atlantic, said in an email to Navy Times. “USS George H.W. Bush is not in a deployment status, and similar to other commands in the U.S. Navy with a small number of cases, there has been no impact to readiness.”

The crew members who tested positive “remain in isolation at their private residences in Virginia and receive daily medical supportive care until they have recovered,” Cragg said.

Bush entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in February 2019 and is in the midst of a 28-month maintenance availability.

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Update: Sailors from the USS George H.W. Bush have COVID-19. The Navy won't say how many (Task & Purpose)

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