General says coronavirus likely to affect more Navy ships
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon leaders anticipate that the coronavirus is likely to strike more Navy ships at sea after an outbreak aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific infected more than 400 sailors, a top general said Thursday. Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said one member of the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt was hospitalized Thursday in intensive care on Guam, where the carrier has been docked for more than a week. He said 416 crew members are now infected and that 1,164 test results are pending. `It´s not a good idea to think that the Teddy Roosevelt is a one-of-a-kind issue,` Hyten told a Pentagon news conference. `We...