An Outbreak of Covid-19 on an Aircraft Carrier

In March of 2020, a sailor on the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt was identified as having SARS-CoV-2 infection. Over the next several weeks, 1271 crew members (27% of the crew) tested positive, the majority of whom (77%) had no symptoms at the time of laboratory diagnosis. Twenty-three crew members were...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2020-12, Vol.383 (25), p.2417-2426
Hauptverfasser:	Kasper, Matthew R, Geibe, Jesse R, Sears, Christine L, Riegodedios, Asha J, Luse, Tina, Von Thun, Annette M, McGinnis, Michael B, Olson, Niels, Houskamp, Daniel, Fenequito, Robert, Burgess, Timothy H, Armstrong, Adam W, DeLong, Gerald, Hawkins, Robert J, Gillingham, Bruce L
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Aircraft Armed forces Asymptomatic Comorbidity Computer centers Coronaviridae Coronaviruses COVID-19 COVID-19 - diagnosis COVID-19 - epidemiology COVID-19 - mortality COVID-19 - transmission COVID-19 Testing Disease Outbreaks Disease Transmission, Infectious - statistics & numerical data Electronic data interchange Epidemics Female Health surveillance Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Hospitals Humans Infections Influenza Laboratories Male Military health care Military Personnel Odds Ratio Original Outbreaks Pathogens Polymerase chain reaction Public health Quarantine Respiratory syncytial virus Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Ships Task forces United States
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Zusammenfassung:	In March of 2020, a sailor on the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt was identified as having SARS-CoV-2 infection. Over the next several weeks, 1271 crew members (27% of the crew) tested positive, the majority of whom (77%) had no symptoms at the time of laboratory diagnosis. Twenty-three crew members were hospitalized, and 1 died.
ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMoa2019375