Cuomo to ask Trump to authorize four more temporary hospitals
By Marty Johnson - 03/27/20 12:34 PM EDT
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said on Friday that he will ask President Trump for the authorization to build four additional temporary hospitals as the state deals with a rising number of coronavirus cases.
"We still have a shortfall [of hospital beds], so we're going to go to Plan B," Cuomo said at his daily press conference on the outbreak.
"We're going to seek to build another four temporary emergency hospitals, which would get us another 4,000 beds," he explained.
Cuomo gave his press conference from the Javitz Convention Center in Manhattan, one of four temporary hospitals that he had already ordere. The others will be in Westchester, Stony Brook and Old Westbury on Long Island.
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