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COVID-19 aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt: a timeline

Jan. 17, 2020: USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71, or TR), a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, departs San Diego with its battle group for a deployment to the western Pacific region. (1/x)

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March 5: TR arrives for a port visit in Danang, Vietnam. (2/x)

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March 8: New cases of COVID-19 are discovered among the residents of Danang. (3/x)

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March 9: TR departs Danang. (4/x)

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March 24: Three TR sailors are diagnosed with COVID-19. They are medevaced off the ship. (5/x)

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March 25: Five more TR sailors are diagnosed with COVID-19 and medevaced off the ship. (6/x)

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March 26: TR begins testing entire crew for COVID-19. Acting SecNav Thomas Modly says carrier will pull into port in Guam. Navy officials say a Guam port visit had been planned for the deployment. (7/x)

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March 27: TR is pierside in Guam for the second time in its deployment. It stopped there on Feb. 7 as well. (8/x)

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March 28: Eight sailors have been sent to Naval Hospital Guam for treatment for COVID-19. (9/x)

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March 30: TR's commanding officer, Capt. Brett Crozier, sends an extraordinary 4-page letter to his superiors, asking for approval and help in executing his proposal to remove all but 10% of his crew from the ship, lest sailors die "unnecessarily." (10/x)

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March 30, 7:47 a.m. ET: Capt. Crozier posts to TR's official Facebook page: "The TR Team is working with the great folks at Naval Base Guam to get Sailors off the ship and into facilities on base to help spread the crew out." (11/x)

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March 31, morning: Crozier's letter is obtained and published by the San Francisco Chronicle. (12/x)

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March 31, 12:40 p.m. ET: Acting Navy Secretary Modly tells CNN the Navy is responding to Capt. Crozier's proposal, and working to evacuate the ship… (13/x)

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...Modly tells CNN: “The key is to make sure that we can get a set of crew members that can man all those critical functions on the ship, make sure they’re clean, then get them back on while we clean the ship and get the other crew members off.” (14/x)

March 31, afternoon: Acting SecNav Modly tells MSNBC that 1,000 sailors have already come off the Theodore Roosevelt. (15/x)

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March 31, afternoon: Defense Secretary Mark Esper tells CBS News, "I don’t think we’re at that point” where the carrier should be evacuated…. (16/x)

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...Esper adds, "Well, I have not had a chance to read that letter, read it in detail. Again I'm going to rely on the Navy chain of command to go out there to assess the situation...” (17/x)

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Esper "...and make sure they provide the captain and the crew all the support they need to get the sailors healthy and the ship back at sea." (18/x)

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April 1, morning: The San Francisco Chronicle reports, citing communications with various unnamed sailors, that Crozier and other shipboard leaders had briefed them on the evacuation plan, and that the ship had begun to execute it. (19/x)

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