World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID‐19 a pandemic on 12 March 2020 (World Health Organization 2020a), and compared to other countries, Taiwan has to date registered a relatively low number of COVID‐19 cases. As of 10 June 2020, Taiwan’s 443 confirmed cases of COVID‐19 included 55 domestic cases (12.4%) and 352 imported cases (79.5%), while 36 (8.1%) were navy members on the fleet, and of these, seven had died (Taiwan Centers for Disease Control 2020, 2020a). This is all the more remarkable given that Taiwan sits only 81 miles off the coast of China and was initially predicted to suffer the second highest number of COVID‐19 cases worldwide due to its proximity to and frequency of flights to and from China (Center for Systems Science & Engineering of Johns Hopkins University 2020).