Aircraft carrier captain pleads for help after more than 100 crew are infected with coronavirus

The captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier with more than 100 cases of coronavirus wrote a stunning plea for help to senior military officials.

The virus — which has killed at least 40,000 and infected more than 823,000 people around the world — is spreading from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, the largest of all geographic combatant commands.Smith Collection | Gado | Getty Images "We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors," Crozier wrote. "The spread of the disease is ongoing and accelerating."

The latest revelation of the coronavirus exposure aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which is currently docked in Guam, follows a recently completed port call to Da Nang, Vietnam.

Military PPL Affected by COVID19 shouldn't be on the news in the 1st place. No other country has reported on that. Secret Hospital & numbers of the affected. They should even help the affected VETERANS TOO. PFPAOfficial DHSgov StateDeptPM MilitaryHealth HHSGov CDCgov

Watching CNN Genius move to not report anything or any numbers when it comes to the Active Military personnel affected & COVID19. They should have their secret separate hospital. StateDeptPM MilitaryHealth PFPAOfficial StateDept USNavy USArmy usairforce USMC HHSGov

This is why it's vital for the President to step in and use the War Act so manufacturers can produce equipment)supplies to help out ournation & armed forces. He calls himself 'war time President', yet has done NOTHING to protect the citizens, nor the soldiers, by acting like one.

How you get the virus in the middle of the ocean?

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PaulDereume & quoted today, Secretary of Defense Esper said that he “hadn’t read all the details of the letter”. Then he proceeded to state that he had zero plans to evacuate & sterilize the ship. So much for “Thanks for your Service!” Now it’s, “Go ahead & die, I’m busy!” Pathetic. 🇺🇸

PaulDereume Looks like the Navy could use one of their hospital ships.

Oh man. This is the ship from that show “The Ship,” they’re supposed to be carrying the cure not the contagion. Now we’re all in trouble.

The captain should be relieved of his command. The man shows himself to be a coward and a wimp. How can he ever be trusted to go to war

Pleads? I don’t think so. No Captain gives up his ship without a fight. TR needs to get his sick sailors off ship, disinfect spaces, & get on with the mission. The Navy takes EXCEPTIONAL care of its sailors. Carry on! usstheodoreroosevelt USNavy TR GoNavy CarryOn

Military complex is no match vs a virus

We must take care of our own These sailors are our own

Don’t look to the White House better try china🤡🤡🤡

Thank you CNBC for reporting one of our deficiencies in our military to the world.

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Wtf!! This is a fucking nightmare!

I think Trump has handled thing's the best he cld. Def shld have started handling things different in the beginning. But that is here nor there. WE HAVE TO HELP OUR MILITARY Them like health care workers r the heartbeat of America. We can not have or show weakness in our Military

The widespreadness of these viruses being underestimated unduly and going to cost many lives being shortened much earlier! Saddening!

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Wow most pathetic thing heard all year for sure.

1st mistake is to even think stopping in Vietnam. Sometimes I wonder about these military officers 🙄

No. If I’m sick in service of our country you can be sick too.

Its a bioweapon.

They decided to override the procedure during a pandemic because vietnam only had 100 reported cases.... and infected the ship.

Awwww mannnnnn

Oh he pleades!! Pleades I tell you!

Infected or asymptomatic same thing basically the question is which ones are going to get deathly ill or die.

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In 48 hrs we’ll find out this is bullshit

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