20 seafood workers in Alaska contracted COVID-19, city officials say

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Twenty seafood workers were infected with coronavirus after an outbreak of COVID-19 on the seafood factory trawler Araho in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, according to city officials.

The trawler, owned by the seafood company O'Hara corporation, had a crew of 40 workers, according to a news release from the City of Unalaska.

Crew members from Araho arrived in Unalaska from Seattle on Wednesday, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Some of the crew members said upon arrival they were experiencing coronavirus symptoms, Unalaska city manager Erin Reinders said, according to the news outlet.

After testing, half the crew was found to have the virus. Reinders said a plan is being developed to take care of the crew members with the virus and the ones without the virus

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/20-seafood-workers-in-alaska-contracted-covid-19-city-officials-say/ar-BB1df3Jl?li=BBnb7Kz

[WA-03 Democrat]

1. The fact that only half were or are infected

Is a miracle. Close quarters were every vessel I have been on.

[BlueCanine]

3. Close quarters and...

...The propensity to heavily party when in port.

Fortunatly Unalaska is fairly isolated but if the virus migrates to the lower Aleutian islands where people tend to be more communal in their activities such as canning factory cafeterias it could wipe out the fishing industry in the area.

Many factory ships operate in the area that could spread the virus if it's not mitigated properly.

This could move up the Aleutian chain to the big islands like Kodiak where hospitals are small, few and far between.

[MFM008]

2. nowhere to run

nowhere to hide on a boat.