Navy hospital ship to treat coronavirus patients after outcry
By Ellen Mitchell - 04/06/20 06:45 PM EDT
A Navy hospital ship originally dispatched to New York to treat patients who haven't been infected by the coronavirus will now take in individuals who have contracted the deadly virus, following outcry over hundreds of empty beds on the vessel.
The Comfort, docked in New York harbor, has some 1,000 available beds but has only treated 41 patients since it reached the city last week.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced on Monday that President Trump has agreed to the city’s request to treat coronavirus-infected patients aboard the USNS Comfort.
The switch “will provide much-needed relief to our over stressed hospital systems,†Cuomo wrote on Twitter.
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