USNS Comfort will help relieve local medical centers, as 110,000 beds will likely needed by May, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
has agreed to send a Navy hospital ship to New York Harbor to help relieve local medical centers dealing with an influx of patients amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“It’s an extraordinary step, obviously,” he said. “It’s literally a floating hospital that will add capacity, and the president said he will dispatch it immediately.” The current rate of coronavirus cases in New York suggests that 110,000 beds may be needed in 45 days, according to Cuomo. As of this week, New York has roughly 53,000 hospital beds and 3,000 intensive care unit beds.
“That’s a projection, and projections can change,” he said. “But that’s the problem we’re dealing with.”The Comfort, which has about 1,000 rooms on it, will be moored in New York Harbor.
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