USNS Comfort as it pulled into Pier 90 near West 50th Street at about 10:40 a.m, this morning as promised by the president 2 weeks ago.
“Our nation has heard our plea for help here in New York City,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said as he greeted the ship at Pier 90. “There could not be a better example of all of America pulling for New York City than the arrival of the USNS Comfort
This ship will not treat coronavirus patients, but will take on other patients including trauma cases, freeing up beds at local hospitals focused on combating the pandemic. It will have 750 beds ready to treat patients immediately.
The NY Post pointed out a large crowd of people watched at the pier waving flags and cheering, ignoring the social distancing procedures
The Comfort is staffed by 1,200 medical personnel and equipped with operating rooms, a medical laboratory, a pharmacy, digital radiology, a CAT scan, two oxygen-producing plants and a helicopter deck, Politicio explained
With an unprecedented 66,000 coronavirus cases now reported in New York State, an emergency hospital was erected in tents in Central Park Sunday, as New York City’s staggering toll of coronavirus deaths rose to at least 776, pushing the statewide count past 1,000 SCMP reported.
Cuomo welcomed the USNS Comfort in a tweet Monday morning, writing its arrival “will be remembered.”
“The hospital capacity we add now will save lives,” the governor wrote. “God bless New York.”
The Comfort will be used to treat patients not suffering with coronavirus
In other news an emergency hospital was erected in tents in Central Park Sunday as New York City’s staggering toll of coronavirus deaths rose to at least 776, pushing the statewide count past 1,000, SCMP reported
“We’re going to be using every place we need to use to help people,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “This is the kind of thing you will see now as this crisis develops and deepens.”
The emergency site will open at the park’s East Meadow on Tuesday and house 68 hospital beds for coronavirus patients, according to de Blasio. He said the Mount Sinai Health System, the faith-based charity Samaritan’s Purse – run by Franklin Graham, son of the late televangelist Billy Graham – the Central Park Conservancy and his own office were collaborating on the undertaking.
