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Coronavirus update: Capt. to Navy - "Sailors don't need to die" from virus | Andrew Dyer

Episode Summary

The captain of the San Diego-based aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt pleads with the Navy to take immediate action to prevent the spread of the virus on the ship.

Episode Notes

The captain of the San Diego-based aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, in port in Guam fighting a coronavirus outbreak among its crew, says that unless the Navy takes immediate action to isolate the crew off the ship, COVID-19 will continue to spread and “there will be losses,” he wrote in a letter sent Sunday to Pacific Fleet commanders.


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Original story from the San Francisco Chronicle.