I will continue to contend that the reason the captain was removed from the ship was because Naval intelligence is going to get to the bottom of any possibility that this was a planned covert op to see if it was possible to take a ship offline biologically.
Perhaps it’s all staged to find out how deep leaks go or to fake adversaries in thinking this is possible? Don’t know...probably grasping at straws but something just doesn’t seem right about the story.