Washington state releases Army field hospital that didn't see a single patient
By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times - Friday, April 10, 2020
A 250-bed Army field hospital that was intended to act as a relief valve for Washington state’s health care system by caring for non-coronavirus patients will be returned to federal control without seeing a single patient.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said the Army hospital, set up inside Seattle’s Century Link Field Event Center, will now be returned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency so it can be deployed to another state.
“We requested this resource before our physical distancing strategies were fully implemented, and we had considerable concerns that our hospitals would be overloaded with COVID-19 cases,†Gov. Inslee said in a statement, referring to the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
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