A crew member aboard the USNS Comfort, the Navy hospital ship docked in New York City, has tested positive for coronavirus.
The news came after President Trump confirmed the 1,000-bed ship will start treating coronavirus cases after originally being sent to Manhattan to take on cases unrelated to the pathogen.
“New Jersey is going to use it as well because New Jersey is also a hot spot,” he added. “It’s a big ship and it’s now COVID, it’s set for COVID and we are going to, hopefully, that will be very helpful to both states.”Meanwhile, a New York doctor told Fox News about the difficulty in moving patients out of crowded hospitals to the Comfort.
On Monday, Gov. Cuomo announced that the number of daily coronavirus deaths in New York has now been “Cuomo said Monday his state reported 599 new deaths, “While none of this is good news, the possible flattening of the curve is better than the increases that we have seen,” Cuomo said.
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