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The Navy Deploys Two Hospital Ships as the Coronavirus Spreads
We only have 2 hospital ships...........they get one each.
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The Navy Deploys Two Hospital Ships as the Coronavirus Spreads
Dump has a plan for CA and NY?
The Navy Deploys Two Hospital Ships as the Coronavirus Spreads
We only have 2 hospital ships...........they get one each.
I suggest the reader read your link. Clearly this has not been thoroughly vetted.
One found my comment funny, clearly he did not bother to read the link. It is biddable fools who fail to understand that Donald Trump has no expertise on any issue, and never considers the consequences of actions/policies/statements/tweets which critical thinkers in leadership roles must have.
Emotive personal attacking claptrap
It’s All you have
Not at all, it was an observation aided by evidence. Did you read the link, yes or no?
If not, read it:
The Navy Deploys Two Hospital Ships as the Coronavirus Spreads
Trump: Hospital Ship Comfort to go to New York City, Mercy Set for West Coast Support - USNI News
THE PENTAGON — The Navy hospital ship USNS
Comfort (T-AH-20) will be routed to New York City to help alleviate non-COVID-19 medical needs, President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday.
USNS
Mercy (T-AH-19) will be tasked to support the West Coast, though the location is still being decided.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters on Wednesday morning that Trump had pledged to send the 1,000-bed Navy hospital ship to New York City Harbor.
“The president, I spoke to this morning, he’s going to be making arrangements to send up this hospital ship, which is called [USNS]
Comfort. It has about 1,000 rooms on it, it has operating rooms, and the president is going to dispatch the
Comfort to us,” he said. “It will be in New York City Harbor. This will be, it’s an extraordinary step obviously, it’s literally a floating hospital which will add capacity, and the president said he would dispatch that immediately.”
New York officials anticipate the peak demand for medical services in about 45 days and are working to build up the capacity to handle the influx of COVID-19. In addition to the ship, New York has put out a call for retired doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to help create a reserve force of personnel, and the state is looking for sites for military mobile hospitals it can erect in advance of the surge of expected cases, Cuomo said.
The work will happen in conjunction with federal assets.
“The state cannot do this on its own; we don’t have the capacity, we don’t have the workforce,” Cuomo said.
The Pentagon has given orders for East Coast-based
Comfort and West Coast sister ship
Mercy to be activated and staffed to support the domestic COVID-19 related response, USNI News reported on Tuesday.
It’s unclear how quickly both hospital ships can be ready to deploy.
Comfort is in the midst of a maintenance period at its homeport at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., a Navy official said.
Mercy was recently spotted by USNI News in a maintenance yard in San Diego, but the official said
Mercy is closer than
Comfort to being physically ready to deploy. More importantly, though, both ships will also need to be staffed with active-duty and reserve medical personnel.
“Both ships are currently working to complete scheduled maintenance cycles and identify necessary medical staffing to deploy as soon as possible,” read a statement from the Navy provided to USNI News.
Comfort and
Mercy will not deploy to treat COVID patients, but will be made available to assist with treatment of other patients in coastal locations where local health professionals are necessarily focused on a large number of COVID cases. More information on the possible deployments of
Comfort and
Mercy will be announced once a firm timeline is established.”
In ideal conditions, it takes about a week to assemble the personnel needed to staff both ships.
“The big challenge isn’t the availability of these inventories, it’s the medical professionals. All of those doctors and nurses either come from our medical treatment facilities or they come from the reserves, which means civilians,” Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters on Tuesday.
“What I don’t want to do is take reservists from a hospital where they are needed just to put them on a ship to take them somewhere else where they’re needed.”
