G LEAGUE MILITARY WAR A new path Coalition stops reporting 29 soldiers to receive to the NBA information on airstrikes Purple Hearts for takes shape conducted in Afghanistan Iranian missile strike Back page Page 4 Page 3 Online: Get the latest news on the virus outbreak » stripes.com/coronavirus stripes.com Volume 79, No. 13 ©SS 2020 WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Roosevelt prepares for return to patrols BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS Stars and Stripes The USS Theodore Roosevelt will not wait for all its sailors to clear quarantine before re- turning to sea after more than a month sidelined on Guam bat- tling a coronavirus outbreak on board, the ship’s commander said in a CBS News report Monday. The San Diego-based aircraft carrier had been patrolling the Western Pacific before diverting to Guam on March 26 after sev- eral sailors required coronavirus treatment. Since then, at least 1,156 sailors have tested positive, one of whom died. The Navy on Friday stopped publicly reporting daily tallies of new coronavirus cases among the Roosevelt crew. “We’ve taken 45 days from that business (of patrolling) and it’s a dangerous business, so we have a ‘We don’t know how it will end’ lot of training to complete,” Roos- evelt commander Capt. Carlos Sardiello told CBS News. Sardiello took over last month BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER the nation’s capital. It was close enough, after the ship’s former com- AND JACQUELYN MARTIN Hunger stalks amid virus she figured, “to show the angel of death mander, Capt. Brett Crozier, was Associated Press to pass over our home.” relieved when a letter he sent Pass us by, coronavirus. pleading for help for his sailors WASHINGTON And pass us by, hunger. and warning of future deaths hen all this started — when At night now, it’s the worry over food was leaked to the San Francisco the coronavirus began that keeps Janeth’s mind racing, and Chronicle. stalking humanity like her heart, she says, hurting. “I spend Sardiello also preceded Crozier Wan animal hunting prey, hours thinking, thinking, about what as the carrier’s commander, hav- when she and her husband lost their we will do the next day, where we will ing left for a position with Naval restaurant jobs overnight as the world find food the next day,” she says weeks Air Forces command five months shut down to hide, when she feared not into the coronavirus outbreak, her fam- earlier, according to the Navy. being able to feed her family — Janeth ily’s food and cash both dwindling. went outside with a red kitchen towel. SEE RETURN ON PAGE 6 Janeth and her husband, Roberto, It was Passover. Her pastor had told are part of the greatest surge in unem- her about the roots of the Jewish holi- ployment in the U.S. since the Depres- day, about Israelites smearing a lamb’s PHOTOS BY JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP sion, setting off a wave of hunger that is RELATED blood on their doors as a sign for the swamping food programs nationwide. plagues to pass them by. So Janeth, an At top: After cooking their one meal for the day, As Italy reopens, immigrant from Honduras, reached up Janeth worries while standing in her kitchen last The couple and every adult member of to hang the red towel over the door of month in Washington. Above: Janeth’s daughter, their extended family in the U.S. have US troops remain Allison, 5, wears a painter’s mask for protection. her family’s apartment on the edge of SEE HUNGER ON PAGE 8 shut in Page 5 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, May 6, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9687 Carnival plans to start sailing again in August Euro costs (May 6) ................................ $1.06 Thailand (Baht) .....................................32.38 Dollar buys (May 6) ......................... €0.8984 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.0704 British pound (May 6) ..........................$1.21 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press sail to destinations including the July 24 . Japanese yen (May 6) ........................105.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (May 6) ............1,196.00 facilities in the country of issuance Bahamas and Cozumel, Mexico, Carnival said that it is still de- Commercial rates Carnival Cruise Line said Mon- for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3781 according to Carnival’s web site. termining what specific measures Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For day that it plans to gradually re- British pound .....................................$1.2471 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., Carnival said that its opera- it will take to prevent future out- Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.4035 sume cruising in North America purchasing British pounds in Germany), tions from other North American China (Yuan) ........................................ 7.0625 breaks once it resumes sailing. check with your local military banking in August, nearly five months Denmark (Krone) ................................6.8585 and Australian markets will be facility. Commercial rates are interbank Tara Smith, a professor of Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.7397 after it halted operations due to on hold through Aug. 31. It is also rates provided for reference when buying epidemiology at Kent State Euro ........................................ $1.0879/0.9192 the coronavirus. canceling sailings from Vancou- Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7531 currency. All figures are foreign currencies University’s College of Public Hungary (Forint) .................................321.80 to one dollar, except for the British pound, Sailings will begin on Aug. 1 or ver to Honolulu on Sept. 25 and which is represented in dollars-to-pound, Health, said that she’s not sure Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.5159 soon after, with eight ships set- Honolulu to Brisbane, Australia, Japan (Yen) ...........................................106.60 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) ting off from Galveston, Texas, on Oct. 6. how cruising can be done safely. Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3089 INTEREST RATES Miami and Port Canaveral, Fl a. Even with reduced capacity, she Norway (Krone) .................................10.2275 The U.S. Centers for Disease Philippines (Peso)................................. 50.61 Prime rate ................................................3.25 A majority of customers can eas- Control issued a no-sail order to said, ventilation systems can still Poland (Zloty) ..........................................4.17 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7549 Federal funds market rate ...................0.04 ily drive to those ports, the com- cruise companies on March 14. It spread droplets through enclosed Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.4139 3-month bill ............................................. 0.12 pany noted. Those cruises would was extended and is set to expire spaces. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,219.32 30-year bond ...........................................1.30 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 51/43 Kabul 72/48 Seoul 69/51 Baghdad 89/73 Kandahar 92/59 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 70/51 63/54 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 59/37 54/42 62/53 Iwakuni 61/55 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 85/80 Brussels 55/38 Guam 92/84 61/41 Ramstein 67/57 83/78 Lajes, 57/38 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 97/83 96/75 63/60 57/39 57/42 Aviano/ Vicenza 60/49 Naples 69/56 Okinawa Morón 73/70 83/54 Sigonella Rota 85/57 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 92/82 74/59 68/58 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 16 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 15 Crossword ................. 15 Faces ........................ 17 Opinion ................ 18-19 Sports ...................21-24 Wednesday, May 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY 29 soldiers to get Purple Hearts for injuries in attack BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY The Purple Heart medal is Stars and Stripes awarded to service members who were wounded or killed in ac- WASHINGTON — Twenty-nine tion during combat or hostilities. U.S. soldiers are to be awarded Each military service determines the Purple Heart medal after sus- the eligibility criteria for person- QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA/AP taining brain injuries in the Ira- nel to be recommended for the nian missile attack in January on award. U.S. soldiers and journalists inspect the rubble Jan. 13 at a site of an Iranian attack at al Asad air base al Asad Air Base in Iraq’s Anbar “It is important to note that a in Iraq. Six Army soldiers who were injured in the attack have been awarded Purple Hearts, and 23 province, U.S. Central Command traumatic brain injury diagnosis others have been approved for the award, U.S. Central Command said Monday. announced Monday. does not automatically qualify a Six of the medals were awarded service member for Purple Heart tion Inherent Resolve. Iraq and throughout the Middle “I heard they had headaches in Iraq and Kuwait on Sunday and eligibility or awarding,” Urban White recommended against East. and a couple of other things. I Monday, Navy Capt. Bill Urban, a said in the statement. Purple Heart medal submis- President Donald