WASHINGTON  The captain of a U.S. Navy plane provider with greater than 100 instances of coronavirus wrote a surprising plea for assist to senior navy officers. 

In a four-page letter, first reported by The San Francisco Chronicle, Capt. Brett Crozier of the united statesTheodore Roosevelt described a disastrous state of affairs unfolding aboard the warship, a short lived residence to greater than 4,000 crew members.

"We aren't at conflict. Sailors don't must die. If we don't act now, we're failing to correctly handle our most trusted asset our Sailors," Crozier wrote. "The unfold of the illness is ongoing and accelerating."

He proposed offloading the vast majority of the crew, quarantining these contaminated, testing others for the virus and professionally cleansing the ship. He defined in his letter that by maintaining the crew on the vessel the Pentagon was taking "an...