{"id":8384,"date":"2020-03-18T19:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:08:22","slug":"president-trump-is-sending-in-the-navy-to-battle-the-coronavirus-crisis-two-hospital-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8384","title":{"rendered":"President Trump is sending in the Navy to battle the coronavirus crisis, two hospital ships."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Donald Trump is sending in the Navy to battle the coronavirus crisis, specifically two massive hospital ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re in \u201ctip top shape,\u201d Trump said Wednesday, and will likely be launched \u201cin the next week or so.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USNS Comfort, based in\u00a0Norfolk, Virginia, is\u00a0a ship with 1,000 beds and is currently being prepared to sail to New York, Cuomo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said Wednesday that the the Navy was also preparing a second hospital ship, the USNS Mercy, currently docked in San Diego, California, to help treat coronavirus patients, although a destination hasn\u2019t been announced yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to The Hill, the announcement comes after\u00a0New York lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0called to bring in the ship to help treat more patients\u2014\u00a0Cuomo said Wednesday that New York needs to\u00a0increase its hospital bed capacity<\/a>\u00a0by 50,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has sent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to New York to discuss adding hospital capacity, and Cuomo said he plans to meet with them Wednesday afternoon\u2014the city is also\u00a0working with the Secretary of Defense and FEMA to help address the coronavirus outbreak in New York, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuomo said the city and the federal government are collaborating to set up field hospitals in New York\u2014these mobile hospitals have the capacity to treat between 200 and 250 people at a time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump is sending in the Navy to battle the coronavirus crisis, specifically two massive hospital ships. They\u2019re in \u201ctip top shape,\u201d Trump said Wednesday, and will likely be launched \u201cin the next week or so.” The USNS Comfort, based in\u00a0Norfolk, Virginia, is\u00a0a ship with 1,000 beds and is currently being prepared to sail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19295,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions\/19295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}