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Confirmed: 50 Covid-19 Cases Aboard French Navy’s Aircraft Carrier
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Following the announcement of a suspected Covid-19 cases among aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle's crew, a medical team was sent on board. The tests it carried out confirm fifty positive cases of Covid-19 on board.
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I wonder how many other cases are aboard but as of yet undetected? I talked to my grandson and he said there was only one case so far. That was on Monday. Nimitz is still pierside in Bremerton under a quarantine order.

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The crew has stayed aboard the ship pierside since April 1, and no one except those exhibiting symptoms have been allowed off the ship in an attempt to reduce sailors’ exposure and more easily monitor them for symptoms. The sailors are not getting their temperatures checked daily, but have been instructed to self-isolate and call the medical team — who have the proper personal protective equipment — for a more thorough screening if they start to feel symptoms associated with Covid-19.
 
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I wonder how many other cases are aboard but as of yet undetected? I talked to my grandson and he said there was only one case so far. That was on Monday. Nimitz is still pierside in Bremerton under a quarantine order.

From the article.

The crew has stayed aboard the ship pierside since April 1, and no one except those exhibiting symptoms have been allowed off the ship in an attempt to reduce sailors’ exposure and more easily monitor them for symptoms. The sailors are not getting their temperatures checked daily, but have been instructed to self-isolate and call the medical team — who have the proper personal protective equipment — for a more thorough screening if they start to feel symptoms associated with Covid-19.
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To date, the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is the first major fleet formation in line to deploy under the new set of guidelines, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told a small group of reporters on Thursday, according to a transcript obtained by USNI News.

“Nimitz is getting ready to go to sea,” Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. John Hyten told reporters on Thursday. “They’ve been isolated on the ship getting ready to go.”

The crew of USS Nimitz (CVN-68) has so far been sequestered inside the skin of the carrier for nine days of a 14-day restriction of movement (ROM) period before heading to sea for pre-deployment training. The squadrons of Carrier Air Wing 17 are likewise sequestered at their own home stations until they fly aboard Nimitz next week.

“We put out some detailed guidance right in the beginning and have refined it over time just in terms of the preventative measures that we need to take in ships, submarines, aircraft squadrons in our installations. And then we learned a lot from [Roosevelt],” Gilday said.
“So that entire strike group, including the ships that will accompany her on deployment, they’re in a 14-day ROM period before they head to sea for their intermediate- and advanced-level training and finally their deployment certification.”

Sailors on the ships and the squadrons are medically screened daily for signs of the virus.

“We’re taking temperatures, we’re querying everybody to see if they have any symptoms, even mild symptoms, so we can begin to take action,” Gilday said.

For example, a sailor aboard Nimitz came down with COVID-19-like symptoms and was quickly isolated from the crew. Subsequent tests were inconclusive, but the incident sparked a contact investigation and additional monitoring.

While the medical checks are helpful, “what I wish we had was greater capacity really to test all those people all at once,” Gilday added.

Quick and accurate testing for COVID-19 is becoming the greatest barrier to keeping the virus contained, he said.
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Ideally they should have everyone evacuated from the ship and under isolated quarantine from each other. An infected person may be asymptomatic or not yet display symptom. In a enclosed environment with central air circulating like a naval vessel, these patients would have already infected many others before they show symptom and allowed off the ship. In case of asymptomatic ones, that would take a long time until a ship wide test which god knows when or if that would happen. With their current method this is just another diamond prince but worse.
 
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