Monday, April 13, 2020

U.S. Sailor Aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt Dies Of Coronavirus

A sailor who tested positive for coronavirus on board USS Theodore Roosevelt has died. The unidentified sailor was admitted into intensive care on Thursday

Daily Mail: USS Theodore Roosevelt sailor who tested positive for coronavirus DIES after it was revealed Captain Brett Crozier feared COVID-19 would kill 50 of his crew

The unidentified sailor tested positive March 30, was taken off the ship and was put in isolation housing with four other people
He was found unresponsive Thursday and moved to the ICU at a local hospital
Nearly 600 sailors on the aircraft carrier, docked in Guam, have tested positive
Captain Brett Crozier sent a memo urging the Navy to respond more quickly to a coronavirus outbreak on the ship and was fired as a result
He sent a memo after a doctor warned 50 crew could die if something wasn't done

A sailor who tested positive for coronavirus on board USS Theodore Roosevelt has died.

The name of the sailor was not revealed but it was a member of the Navy who had tested positive for the virus on March 30 and was taken off the ship and moved into isolation accommodation with four others.

On Thursday he was found unresponsive during a medical check and was moved to a local hospital's intensive care unit.

The death comes after it was revealed Captain Brett Crozier knew he could face firing for breaking protocol and sending a memo urging the Navy to respond more quickly to an outbreak on the ship.

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Sailor aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt dies of coronavirus -- CNN
First Navy Sailor From USS Theodore Roosevelt Dies of Coronavirus -- Newsweek
Sailor from USS Theodore Roosevelt dies of coronavirus -- Politico

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why would you only report 1 fact, when there were 5 or 10 more facts to put this event into context?

Why do you think the Navy has photos of people put into their jackets. At a time when HR departments have taken photos off of resumes for decades in not 1/2 a century or more to prevent discrimination?

In my unit I can think of 5 people who are obese, not merely overfat, but obese. One morbidly so. If they are obese, might they be diabetic or pre-diabetic?

If you are middle aged, have hypertension, are pre-diabetic don't get a lot of sun below decks (hello Vitamin D), and you catch a bug and then you die, is that a surprise?

Let's no mention binge drinking in port. What do the AA meetings look like?

I've had classmates, new college grads, drop dead of heart conditions that they did not know they had. They were not exercising at the time and they were not overweight at all.

So a person drops dead. We know one fact and one fact only. No context.



Anonymous said...

By the numbers 1 out of every 400 infected will not survive, considering the average age and health conditions of the crew.

Anonymous said...

1:57,

I am not sure what point you were trying to make or to bludgeon the public with.

1) 1 out of 400 computes to a .25% death rate.

2) We do not know if the sailor or airman had a preexisting condition. I would not expect them to be obese or diabetic, but they may be an older sailor and have hypertension. I would not expect them to be obese, but I would expect the rate to be at least .04% obesity among the sailors. There will be sailors that cannot get though a manhole of a watertight door, when a modified condition zebra is set due to obesity. Which means they they sleep at their workcenter.

3) We do not know, if they died with or because of COVID 19. We do not know, if this sailor was an alcoholic or had an STD.