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NBC 7’s Marianne Kushi shares what you need to know in San Diego County on the morning of October 19, 2020.

Petty Officer Adrian Stanton was on his first navy deployment. He lost the ship’s commander, caught the coronavirus, spent weeks in quarantine, then returned from this long strange trip to a life and home he barely recognized. When USS Theodore Roosevelt left for the South China Sea, the coronavirus did not seem to Stanton like the U.S. Navy’s problem....

The ship recently returned to sea after being docked in Guam as the 4,800 crew members went through rotations of quarantine after more than 1,000 of them tested positive for the coronavirus.

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The USS Theodore Roosevelt has left Guam and gone out to sea for training after nearly two months sidelined at the pier with a coronavirus outbreak.

At least 14 sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt who had recovered from COVID-19 have tested positive for a second time, raising questions about immunity and whether people can catch the coronavirus shortly after getting better, NBC News reports.

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

The former Commanding Officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt returns to the ship to prepare sailors to get back to their mission after 1,100 sailors were sickened in the coronavirus outbreak.

The San Diego-based nuclear aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is preparing to get back to sea following weeks in Guam after more than 1,000 sailors tested positive for COVID-19. NBC7’s military reporter Bridget Naso spoke to the ship’s new commanding officer about getting back to the mission.

The San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt has 1,102 active COVID-19 cases, the Navy reported on Thursday, in what will be its final report on virus cases aboard the aircraft carrier and USS Kidd barring “significant changes.”

Acting Navy Secretary James E. McPherson said on Wednesday that he has ordered a second investigation into the COVID-19 outbreak aboard the San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt, as the preliminary inquiry into the outbreak left him with “unanswered questions.”

The Navy’s top admiral will soon decide the fate of the ship captain who was fired after pleading for his superiors to move faster to safeguard his coronavirus-infected crew on the USS Theodore Roosevelt

Sailors aboard the San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt are cleaning the ship to keep fellow sailors safe as they hope to return the ship to sea. The crew has cleaned up to 80% of the ship, as sanitizing has become an all-hands effort. A roving team is constantly transitioning the ship and cleaning along the way, the Navy said. “It’s…

There are two San Diego-based ships dealing with multiple cases of COVID-19. NBC 7’s military reporter Bridget Naso has more.

While they have two very different missions, two San Diego-based U.S. Navy ships are both battling multiple cases of COVID-19.

A U.S. Navy Sailor aboard aircraft-carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has died of coronavirus-related complications on Monday after he spent days in intensive care, according to the Navy. The service member tested positive for COVID-19 on March 30 and was placed in isolation on Naval Base Guam. He was receiving medical checks twice a day when his health deteriorated and he…

NBC 7’s Danny Freeman shares details and perspective on the multiple hard weeks for sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

The U.S. Navy announced 585 total cases of the coronavirus among crew members from the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.

A service member aboard USS Roosevelt, where an outbreak of COVID-19 was reported, is now in the ICU. NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar reports.