With Warship Coronavirus Cases Rising, Concerns Over Military Readiness
[link:https://www.npr.org/2020/04/09/831266852/with-warship-coronavirus-cases-rising-concerns-over-military-readiness|
Amid growing concerns about military readiness, a sailor from the coronavirus-sidelined aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt became the first crew member to be hospitalized in intensive care in Guam Thursday. He is one of more than 400 of the ship's sailors who have tested positive for COVID-19.
"I guess deep down I was hoping that we would never get to the point. I was hoping that the numbers would be zero at the end of this," Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said of the sick sailor at a Pentagon news briefing Thursday. "But that's just not going to be the case with coronavirus."
Hyten said with almost all of the Roosevelt's crew of 4,865 now tested, 416 tested positive — nearly 9% — and 3,170 tested negative, while the results for another 1,164 were still pending. Of those testing positive, he said 229 — more than half — showed no symptoms of the disease.
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