US Naval Academy coronavirus outbreak sends 98 midshipman to hotel for quarantine
The U.S. Naval Academy has moved 98 midshipmen recovering from COVID-19 to the Hilton Garden Inn in Annapolis, Maryland in an effort to present further area for quarantining and isolation on the faculty’s Bancroft Hall dormitory.
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According to a news release Monday, the Naval Academy will home two midshipmen per hotel room. Transportation to and from the hotel shall be offered by USNA buses or vans.
The impacted midshipmen, who’re from a wide range of lessons inside the brigade, shall be required to keep in their very own room besides when escorted outdoor at set instances for “wellness purposes” and are prohibited from having friends or meals deliveries. The midshipmen will attend lessons just about and can proceed to be monitored twice each day.
The Hilton Garden Inn was chosen due to its “robust COVID protocols,” Naval Academy officers mentioned within the launch.
A Hilton spokesperson declined to remark, citing visitor privateness issues.
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The transfer comes after Naval Academy senior management introduced on Sunday that they might enhance COVID-19 mitigation measures instantly due to an uptick in constructive circumstances.
“While our midshipman population is young and healthy, and likely able to rebound from COVID-19, there are still too many unknowns with COVID-19 to take this situation lightly. The health and safety of our entire Naval Academy family is, and will remain, my highest priority while we continue to execute our mission of developing our future naval leaders,” 63rd Superintendent Vice Adm. (*98*) Buck mentioned in an announcement. “We need this to be an all-hands effort from our faculty, staff, coaches…this is not just a midshipman effort.”
As a part of the extra mitigation measures, educational lessons will return to a distant surroundings, all meals shall be consumed in dorm rooms, continued sporting of masks and social distancing shall be enforced and deliberate cleansing protocols shall be put in place.
Midshipmen are permitted to have out of doors bodily exercise for a most of two hours complete per day, with a most of 1 roommate. All midshipmen recognized as shut contacts will obtain each day antigen check.
In addition, all sports activities practices and occasions are suspended, with the only real exception of varsity ladies’s and males’s basketball. The males’s basketball staff shall be allowed to take part in postseason play because the staff has been remoted from the remainder of the Brigade since final week. However, the ladies’s basketball staff will now not have the opportunity to take part within the Patriot League event due to a constructive COVID-19 check. The constructive check occurred earlier than they have been ready to be remoted.
Those with authorised credentials to entry the Naval Academy — corresponding to sponsors, dad and mom, and lively, reserve, or retired army — are prohibited from visiting, even to drop off deliveries, in an effort to decrease the unfold of the virus.
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Spokesperson Alana Granas advised Fox News that Naval Academy information exhibits that the COVID-19 circumstances first started to rise round Feb. 18 and have accelerated since.
“Cases typically manifest 5-7 days after exposure, which suggests that the exposures began around the weekend of Feb 13-14,” Granas added. “While it might be satisfying to attribute this to just one variable, or one group, doing so would be an oversimplification. That said, actions taken during liberty that weekend is most likely the primary issue leading to that rise.”
She famous that midshipmen at present fall underneath Phase 2 of the Department of Defense’s vaccination plan. The midshipmen shall be eligible to obtain vaccination as soon as they’re administered to voluntary people in Phases 1/1b/1c.
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The Naval Academy’s plan was authorised by specialists at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the Navy Marine Corps Public Health Center.
