How the Navy's response to an aircraft carrier's coronavirus outbreak spiraled out of control and led Trump's top Navy official to resign

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• The Navy reported the first coronavirus cases aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt on March 24.
• Two weeks later, on April 7, the acting Navy secretary resigned.
• Here is a timeline of the developments that occurred in this two-week window that ended in the Navy leader leaving his job.
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Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigned from his position as head of the service on Tuesday, just two weeks after he revealed the existence of a coronavirus outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, a first for a deployed US Navy warship.

Here's the timeline of all the twists and turns that brought it to this point.

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