The US military said it is working to convert buildings into hospitals and could potentially provide 10,000 hospital beds in New York, as the coronavirus pandemic escalates
Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the head of the US Army Corps of Engineers, said Friday that retrofitting hotels or dormitories into temporary hospitals to alleviate the burden on civilian hospitals caused by the virus would hopefully take three or four weeks."We would like to think we can do this in three or four weeks and try to go as fast as we can," Semonite told reporters at the Pentagon on Friday.
Multiple states seeking supportSemonite acknowledged that multiple states were seeking similar support."We can't do everywhere so we are really asking for the federal government to be able to help prioritize our efforts, with to be able to send us to the right place. This has to be weeks, this can't be months," he said."We're looking very hard at California, the state of Washington, we've already been to New Jersey ...
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