THE KIDD’S NOT ALRIGHT: The Navy has reported a dramatic jump in the number of sailors on the USS Kidd who have tested positive for COVID-19 as the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer steams back to port, its counterdrug mission off the Pacific coast of Central America cut short.

In its latest update, the Navy reports that with almost half of the ship’s 350-member crew tested, 47 tested positive for the virus. That’s 14% of the crew — with 55% still to be tested. If the rest of the sailors test positive at the same rate, as many as 100 could be infected, an infection rate of almost 30%, which would be higher than the roughly 20% infection rate on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

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