The USNS Comfort arrived in New York Monday, bringing 1,000 hospital beds and 1,200 personnel.
The ship will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients currently admitted to shore-based hospitals, and will provide medical care including general surgeries, critical care and ward care for adults. This will allow local health professionals to focus on treating COVID-19 patients and for shore-based hospitals to use their Intensive Care Units and ventilators for those patients.
Federal, state and local officials speak to reporters upon the #USNavy hospital ship #USNSComfort's arrival to #NewYorkCity in support of the nation’s #COVID19 response. https://t.co/7h0FYC4OfK
— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) March 30, 2020
