Besides excluding COVID-19 patients, the Comfort bars patients with nearly 50 other conditions. It has only 3 patients on board. ‘It’s a joke,’ says the head of NY’s largest hospital system. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-usns-comfort.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/0...
This is a ship designed to treat battlefield injuries, not a contagious pathogen. With social distancing in NY, there are fewer gunshot and auto accident victims in hospital ERs. NYC’s need now is more covid beds.
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