Iran Press/America: The first reported cases of coronavirus aboard the carried were announced on March 24, revealing that three sailors had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Since then, a total of 447 sailors have tested positive. One infected sailor has been hospitalized and is in intensive care after he was found unresponsive, according to Business Insider.
The US Navy said Friday that 3,155 of the 4,800 sailors, roughly two-thirds of them, onboard the carrier have been taken ashore in Guam, where the ship is in port as the Navy handles the outbreak.
On April 2, then-acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly, who resigned this past Tuesday, removed Capt. Brett Crozier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt's commanding officer, after his letter urging the US Navy to take decisive action and quickly evacuate the carrier's crew leaked to the media.
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