The U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Comfort set sail on Thursday (April 30) after docking for a month in New York City to serve as an overflow facility for the city's taxed healthcare centers dealing with the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Comfort set sail on Thursday (April 30) after docking for a month in New York City to serve as an overflow facility for the city's taxed healthcare centers dealing with the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The 1,000-bed Comfort never neared its capacity as the city quickly became the world's epicenter for COVID-19 infections.
Over the past month, New York has leveled off and now has about 12,000 hospitalizations.
New York City has suffered some 13,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort will leave New York at noon today - exactly one month after it arrived.
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