The captain relieved of command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt after warning of an outbreak of the coronavirus on his ship has tested positive for the virus, a U.S. defense official told Fox News on Sunday. The Navy ousted Capt. Brett Crozier, 50, after he authored a letter warning that the outbreak of the sometimes-deadly virus had created a dire situation on the carrier. The letter ended up in the hands of a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who first reported its contents last week. Crozier had started showing COVID-19 symptoms before he was removed from the warship last Thursday, The New York Times first reported, citing two Naval Academy classmates of Crozier's close to him and his family. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly ordered Crozier to step down, citing a failure to follow the Navy's chain of command. He accused Crozier of inciting “panic” with the letter.

The former leader of America's largest neo-Nazi group says he's turned over a new leaf, but not everyone is convinced. Jeff Schoep, 46, led the white supremacy group the National Socialist Movement for over two decades until he stepped down from his role and revealed in the fall that is now speaking out publicly on the dangers of extremism. Schoep played a part in the Charlottesville rally in 2017 and is now a defendant in a lawsuit involving the white nationalist rally that left one counterprotestor dead. But while Schoep believes he's had a revelation to now do good, critics believe that his new lifestyle is just a ruse to avoid being found legally liable in the case. Schoep is among more than two dozen defendants accused of planning and carrying out violence at the 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist rally. And Schoep isn't the only defendant denouncing his claim to the racist movement.

President Donald Trump stopped Dr. Tony Fauci from answering a question about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating the coronavirus as he tried to push a more hopeful message about the pandemic. Trump has promoted use of the drug to help coronavirus, after unproven evidence in other countries that it might help. He has even said he'd consider taking hydroxychloroquine himself. But when reporters tried to get the opinion of Dr Fauci - who has previously warned against seeing the malaria medication as a wonder drug - Trump stepped in and stopped the question. The president started his daily press briefing on a hopeful note, saying there was a 'light at the end of the tunnel' in the coming days - a marked contrast to his surgeon general who warned earlier Sunday that 'the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans' lives' was coming up in the battle against the coronavirus.

There is a good chance the new coronavirus could return in seasonal cycles, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has said, underscoring the urgent need to find a vaccine and effective treatments. The scientist, who leads research into infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health and is on the White House coronavirus task force, as has been the face of reassurance during the pandemic in the U.S. He told CBS Face The Nation that even when the virus is under control the world will need to prepared for a resurgence. 'Unless we get this globally under control there is a very good chance that it'll assume a seasonal nature. Facui admitted that at the present time, the government is not ahead of the virus. 'We are struggling to get it under control, and that's the issue that's at hand right now.'

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A stolen vehicle suspect led police on a high-speed chase from Sonoma to Novato Saturday evening, running by foot from his damaged car into the bushes of an industry area before he was captured at gunpoint. The dramatic pursuit and arrest was recorded on video from an assisting helicopter. (Read the Full Story.) #pursuit

Orthodox Jewish men move a wooden casket from a hearse at a funeral home in the Borough Park neighborhood which has seen an upsurge of (COVID-19) patients during the pandemic

The Assistant Health Secretary repeated other experts' claims on Monday that New York, New Jersey and Connecticut would see their #coronavirus peak this week, with more hospitalizations and deaths expected than any other time. Speaking on Good Morning America, Admiral Brett Giroir said this week would be the worst week for those three states but 'that doesn't mean we're over it'. It comes after Surgeon General Jerome Adams' grave prediction that this week 'will be our 9/11' or this generation's Pearl Harbor in terms of the number of lives that will be lost to the virus. As of Monday morning, there had been nearly 10,000 deaths across the US including more than 4,000 in the state of New York. There are more than 330,000 cases of coronavirus across the country and experts fear the true number is far higher but is being concealed to a lack in testing.