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US Navy ship arrives in NYC to ease hospital system
    2020-04-01  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE U.S. Navy Ship (USNS) Comfort arrived in New York City on Monday, bringing 1,000 hospital beds to help relieve the city’s overwhelmed hospital system amid a COVID-19 pandemic.

Both New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio went to greet the ship, which docked on Monday morning at Pier 90 in the West Side of Manhattan.

“We all watch something absolutely extraordinary, absolutely inspiring as the USNS Comfort enters New York Harbor, coming here to save the lives of New Yorkers in our hour of need,” de Blasio remarked after welcoming the ship.

The Comfort, one of two hospital ships with the Navy, is staffed by some 1,200 medical personnel. It also contains 12 fully-equipped operating rooms, a medical laboratory, a pharmacy, an optometry lab, and a CAT-scan, among other facilities, according to the website of the Navy.

It is expected to start operating yesterday treating non-COVID-19 patients so as to free up beds in local hospitals which can be focused on fighting the pandemic by establishing more intensive care units, officials have said.

The most populous city in the country has been the hardest hit with over 36,000 cases reported by Monday afternoon, according to data compiled by the the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

“We realize at this moment that our nation has heard our plea for help here in New York City. And there could not be a better example of all of America pulling for New York City than the arrival of the USNS Comfort,” the mayor added.

Governor Cuomo, who met with the press on site, expressed thanks to the U.S. Navy and the Army which is going to help staff the ship, and President Trump for mobilizing this effort in a short period of time.

He again called for unity of all Americans as “what you’re seeing in New York is going to spread across this country.” He noted, “what we’re learning here, and the training that’s going on here, is going to benefit the places all across this nation in the coming weeks and the coming months.”

Cuomo also issued an urgent appeal for medical volunteers Monday. He said an additional 1 million health care workers are needed to tackle the crisis.

Monday also marked the opening of the field hospitals assembled by the Army in the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan.

The Governor said the hospitals provide 2,500 beds which are also for treating non-COVID-19 patients.

“So, we are doing this ship —1,000 beds; Javits — 2,500 beds. About 3,500 beds to relieve the stress that our hospital system is facing,” he added.

New York transformed a grassy meadow in Central Park into a makeshift hospital and welcomed a Navy hospital ship as officials scrambled to bolster a medical system becoming overwhelmed by coronavirus.

Central Park’s East Meadow on the Upper East Side, normally a spot for picnickers and sunbathers, was converted Sunday into a 68-bed field hospital designed as a respiratory care unit.

In addition, the Army Corps of Engineers transformed Manhattan’s Javits Convention Center into a makeshift 1,000-bed field hospital.

The United States has reported over 160,000 COVID-19 cases with 2,953 deaths, according to the tally from Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) as of 6:15 pm Eastern Time on Monday. (SD-Xinhua)

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