Sailors on sidelined USS Theodore Roosevelt get virus for second time

[SheltieLover]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sailors-sidelined-uss-theodore-roosevelt-get-virus-second-time-n1208076

Sailors on sidelined USS Theodore Roosevelt get virus for second time

The aircraft carrier has been at port in Guam since late March after the outbreak of the virus was discovered.

Image: USS Theodore Roosevelt
Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt off the coast of Southern California on April 30, 2017.Paul L. Archer / AFP - Getty Images file
May 15, 2020, 2:45 PM CDT
By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Five sailors on the U.S. aircraft carrier sidelined in Guam due to a COVID-19 outbreak have tested positive for the virus for the second time and have been taken off the ship, according to the Navy.

The resurgence of the virus in the five sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt underscores the befuddling behavior of the highly contagious virus and raises questions about how troops that test positive can be reintegrated into the military, particularly on ship.

More at link.

[riversedge]

1. I feel bad for these sailors who have to live though the sickness again.

[FBaggins]

2. Bad title

They may have tested positive a second time. That doesn’t mean that they’re sick a second time.

[Chemisse]

3. This has happened before and it was found to be false positives.

The remnants of dead virus cause a positive test result also.

[BComplex]

5. The CDC has also reported that having had the virus does not necessarily confer immunity

There have been reports in other countries, as well, of people getting sick a second time, and dying as a result of the second infection.

Don't ask for a link. I read it on DU way back weeks ago.

[Chemisse]

15. I definitely have not seen such reports.

Positive test results? Yes. Sick a second time? No. (Unless you are talking about how it can go into a lull for a few days and come back in a more severe form; that was established in China. But not sick, gone for weeks, then back and dying.

[crimycarny]

7. Yes--important to note

People aren’t getting sick again with COVID-19, they are testing positive again. Some estimates are a 30% false positive rate.

[mzmolly]

4. Shit.

[captain queeg]

6. The big question is if those who are reinfected get sick

And if so is it as bad as the first time? And of course, can they transmit the virus. I’d think that would be the case.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. The other big question is whether or not those people, if truly reinfected,

shed active virus in any significant numbers.

[Steelrolled]

9. I will need stronger evidence than this before I believe that 2nd infections are common.

[Cha]

10. This is horrible.. wonder if they're more or

less sick this time around.

Mahalo, Sheltie

[SheltieLover]

11. Not sure, Cha

I know someone with a family member on this ship. I will ask tomorrow.

[Cha]

12. Aww.. The CV is so weird..

it 's hard to get a handle on it.. especially when we have a derelict idiot so called in charge.

[SheltieLover]

13. It is really weird!

Alpha Cha!

[Cha]

17. lol.. I had to get

that taken care of.

[madville]

14. Most likely faulty testing, misleading headline

South Korea proved that people were not getting the virus a second time, they hadn’t yet cleared out their original infection.

[jcgoldie]

16. I agree

If this is true it runs counter to what all other medical experts have found. Earlier cases of reinfection referenced above have been debunked.