A new Navy study of hundreds of sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt found that 1 in 5 who tested positive for antibodies were asymptomatic, while the majority of the sailors only had mild COVID-19 symptoms.
The study conducted jointly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also indicated the possibility that a small number of the tested sailors may have some form of immunity to the novelThe carrier left Guam last week, after a 10-week interruption of its deployment to the western Pacific Ocean as the ship's crew of 4,865 sailors was quarantined on the island following an outbreak aboard the ship.
Capt. Carlos Sardiello, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt , right, talks with the families of Theodore Roosevelt Sailors during a virtual town hall, May 10, 2020.Overall the study released on Tuesday found that 60% of the 382 sailors who volunteered to participate tested positive for antibodies, indicating an exposure to the virus.
"This finding may give us an early glimpse into actual immune protection against COVID-19 in young adults, having these intense environmental exposures aboard the ship," said Dan Payne, the CDC researcher who was the lead author of the study."We don't really know for sure that this results in our findings are definitively indicative of immunity, however they're a promising indicator of some degree of immunity," said Payne.
Seaman Cameron Davis mans the helm of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt as the ship operates in the Philippine Sea, May 21, 2020, following an extended visit to Guam in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic.Payne and Navy officials said the most surprising finding was that loss of taste and smell were the symptoms most associated with current or previous infection.
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