As I said, the wrong tool.
The Navy's two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy are stepping into the fight against COVID-19.
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The ships are designed to specialize in trauma cases, given their mission is to treat wounded troops.
They are not designed to handle an infectious disease outbreak for many reasons. The ships have no way of isolating infectious patients; that's why they will deploy to support only non-COVID-19 cases.
Further complicating their support of the outbreak, some of the patient beds aboard are actually stacked atop one another. The berthing beds for the crew are stacked three deep, and the ship uses metal handrails -- on which coronavirus can survive for hours. Some question whether the ships should be used at all.