Destroyer USS Kidd docks in San Diego after outbreak
EVERETT — Sailors aboard an Everett-based destroyer, the USS Kidd, docked Tuesday afternoon at a naval base in San Diego, after 64 crew members tested positive for COVID-19.
It wasn’t clear Tuesday when the ship could return to its home port.
In March, a sailor from a different Naval Station Everett ship, the USS Ralph Johnson, tested positive for coronavirus. The Navy did not disclose the last time the person was on base or aboard ship but said the vessel had “extensive cleaning.” Those who came in contact with the sailor were notified, and the patient recovered at home.
A Stanwood-based group supplied that ship with hundreds of handmade cloth face masks earlier this month.
The Kidd and the Ralph Johnson each have a crew of around 300.
The Kidd is the second Navy ship to experience a coronavirus outbreak while deployed, following the USS Theodore Roosevelt of San Diego, an aircraft carrier with a crew of about 3,000. About a third of the Roosevelt crew has been infected, according to the Navy. One sailor has died.
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