Micronesia in Review-Micronesia: GUÅHAN (GUAM)

ABSTRACT

Leon Guerrero and medical advisor Dr Felix Cabrera, along with the Department of Public Health and Social Services, instituted contact tracing, which showed limited community spread (pit, 8 July 2020). When hundreds of cases of infection were found on his US aircraft carrier, the nuclear-powered Theodore Roosevelt, which docked in Guåhan, Crozier notified admirals of the outbreak in a memo that was released to the press, asking them to unload and quarantine four thousand sailors, over a quarter of whom were eventually found to be infected (wp, 21 May 2020). By contrast, on 29 June 2020, Johns Hopkins University data showed that the total number of confirmed coviD-19 cases in the United States was over 2.6 million and rising-the highest in the world-as contact tracing, testing, and access to personal protective equipment remained limited and politically contentious (JHU, 29 June 2020). The US military continued to draw Indigenous protest as it rejected demands for a pause on destruction of the endangered Serianthes nelsonii tree at its proposed live-fire training range, which will be located near ancient archaeological sites in Litekyan (pdn, 20 July 2019).