However, the service has said ships may need to fight sick if the need arises. The crew of about 330 was routed to San Diego and had at least 78 sailors test positive for the virus before the service stopped publicly reporting the numbers. Guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG-100) suffered an outbreak last month operating in the Eastern Pacific. The outbreak on the carrier resulted in more than 1,000 cases in the crew of 4,800 and resulted in the ship being sidelined in Guam since March 27. The service handled two COVID-19 outbreaks on deployed warships by bringing them into port and removing sailors from the ship, quarantining them and disinfecting the ship until the virus is purged.Ĭarrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is nearing the end of a quarantine and cleaning period and is set to return to sea sometime this week. So far, the Navy hasn’t had to deal with fighting a ship with an active outbreak. However, on a modern warship that requires greater technical skills to operate its systems, the same level of redundancy is not present, he said.
The virus swept through the crew of 830, with 663 infected and 58 dead.Īt the time, warships had “a huge deck force, very junior or non-rated, available to shovel coal” and able to fill in when a crew member was sidelined, Steven Wills, CNA research analyst and a former surface warfare officer, said during the panel. In 1918, only one ship – cruiser USS Pittsburgh (CA-4) – was brought down by the influenza epidemic while in port in Rio de Janeiro. “There’s not a lot of redundancy” to take up the slack if a crew member falls out due to illness or injury as opposed to past eras, Kara Mandell, a senior research scientist at CNA, said during an online forum.
warships less able to operate if a disease breaks out on a ship than the previous ships that weathered the 1918 influenza outbreak, a panel of experts said last week. The increased technical complexity of systems and reduced manning make U.S. Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Rhandy Domigpe, from Oxen Hill, Md., communicates with the bridge watch team during low visibility watch aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG-59).
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