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Captain's letter "pleads for help" - as one reporter put it
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.<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>
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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>
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