I seriously doubt that the Captain sent the copies out simultaneously it’s asking his chain of command for help - remember that it was known that he coronavirus patients aboard at least a week before he pulled the fire alarm.
During my military career, I “skylined” superiors at least twice to get the job done: once when I was second lieutenant when a corrupt squadron commander refused to hold his Marines responsible for criminal activities - he was relieved of his command and second time when I was acting G-4 for the First Marine Division in ‘93 when the Division wasn’t getting their mail in Somalia - and they’d been there for a month. Told the pentagon’s Head of Postal Affairs that his face was going to be on CNN if he didn’t get the system squared away by the next morning.
He did.
Difference between your going outside the COC, and this captain’s.
His was extremely public and made the media.
The Navy HAD to make an example out of him.