$21M Brooklyn field hospital never saw a patient amid coronavirus pandemic

[rangerrebew]

 $21M Brooklyn field hospital never saw a patient amid coronavirus pandemic

By Carl Campanile and Natalie Musumeci

May 22, 2020 | 6:58pm
 

A roughly $21 million Brooklyn field hospital authorized by the de Blasio administration at the height of the coronavirus pandemic opened and closed without ever seeing one patient, according to city officials.

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook was one of several sites across the five boroughs converted into a medical facility as a way to relieve the city’s overburdened hospital system as the COVID-19 crisis mounted.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans on Mar. 31 — a day after the USNS Comfort hospital ship arrived in New York Harbor to aid in the coronavirus fight — for the $20.8 million Red Hook field hospital with an estimated capacity for 750 beds.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/22/brooklyn-field-hospital-never-saw-a-coronavirus-patient/

[catfish1957]

$21M Brooklyn field hospital never saw a patient amid coronavirus pandemic

Make Killer Kwomo and DeBlazio pay for that freakin' Ship that was wasted a month ago for nothing.

[PeteS in CA]

Goobernor Cumo and Major deBlah-Blah failed in years past to make the preparations they knew were needed, behaved insanely foolishly in February and March, and then their panic (and politicization!) probably cost the city, state, and Feds over a 100 million $$!