Tuesday 7 April 2020

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.
  • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

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.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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