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Two weeks after a port call in Vietnam, the aircraft carrier has stopped in Guam. | Two weeks after a port call in Vietnam, the aircraft carrier has stopped in Guam. | ||
* “We are not at war, and therefore cannot allow a single sailor to perish as a result of this pandemic unnecessarily,” Crozier wrote.<ref> [https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-01/spread-of-covid-19-on-carrier-theodore-roosevelt-is-ongoing-and-accelerating-captain-says Coronavirus spread on aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is accelerating, captain says] ''Los Angeles Times''</ref> | * “We are not at war, and therefore cannot allow a single sailor to perish as a result of this pandemic unnecessarily,” Crozier wrote.<ref> [https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-01/spread-of-covid-19-on-carrier-theodore-roosevelt-is-ongoing-and-accelerating-captain-says Coronavirus spread on aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is accelerating, captain says] ''Los Angeles Times''</ref> | ||
| + | * Most of the 5,000 crew members ... will be quarantined in hotel rooms, government officials said Wednesday. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/virus-grounds-a-u-s-aircraft-carrier-as-crew-quarantined-in-guam-11585736476 Virus Grounds a U.S. Aircraft Carrier as Crew Quarantined in Guam] - '''Wall Street Journal''' - 4-1-2020 | ||
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Revision as of 15:38, April 1, 2020
The Roosevelt is a U.S. aircraft carrier which got into the news in late March 2020 after its captain informed superiors of a Coronavirus outbreak on the ship. Two weeks after a port call in Vietnam, the aircraft carrier has stopped in Guam.
- “We are not at war, and therefore cannot allow a single sailor to perish as a result of this pandemic unnecessarily,” Crozier wrote.[1]
- Most of the 5,000 crew members ... will be quarantined in hotel rooms, government officials said Wednesday. Virus Grounds a U.S. Aircraft Carrier as Crew Quarantined in Guam - Wall Street Journal - 4-1-2020