WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy examination into the spread of the coronavirus aboard the Theodore Roosevelt carrier has actually discovered that about 60 percent of the roughly 400 sailors checked had antibodies for the infection, three U.S. authorities informed Reuters on Monday.
All 4,800 sailors on the Roosevelt attack aircraft carrier were checked for the coronavirus previously, and about a quarter checked positive. In April the Navy and the Centers for Illness Control and Prevention (CDC) began conducting a serology test to look for the presence of specific antibodies.
If sailors who did not test positive program antibodies, that might suggest a greater rate of infection than previously known. Comparable tests in Italy and elsewhere have actually shown the existence of antibodies in individuals who did not test favorable previou