US | coronavirus USS Theodore Roosevelt Suffers First Virus Casualty Sailor assigned to stricken aircraft carrier had been in ICU in Guam since Thursday By Polly Davis Doig Posted Apr 13, 2020 8:51 AM CDT Copied In this April 3, 2020, file photo, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a Nimitz-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier, is docked along Kilo Wharf of Naval Base Guam. (Rick Cruz/The Pacific Daily via AP, File) A sailor assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt—the aircraft carrier whose skipper lost his job after pleading with Navy brass to evacuate the ship amid a coronavirus outbreak—has died of complications of the virus, reports NBC News. The sailor, who has not been identified pending notification of his family, tested positive on March 30. He was among five sailors taken off the ship and isolated on the Navy's base in Guam. He died in the ICU of the US Naval Hospital in Guam, where CNN notes he had been admitted Thursday. Some 600 sailors aboard the Roosevelt have tested positive. (The acting secretary of the Navy also lost his job in the controversy.) Read These Next Giuliani injured in high-speed highway crash. A game of doorbell ditch turns fatal for 11-year-old. Guy accused of snatching hat from boy at US Open IDed as rich CEO. It's an unexpected footnote in the life of Buford Pusser. Report an error