Joseph Heller would be proud. There are only 20 patients on the 1200 bed hospital ship Comfort in New York City because of strict Navy requirements for keeping the ship free of sick people and those with medical conditions. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-usns-comfort.html

Rumor has it the Navy's rapid response medical submarine SSBN Peace Out has submerged and will not resurface until autumn of 2022

The USNS Out of Network, a Reagan-era hospital ship, is reportedly steaming to New York City to help but was built without any doors or portholes.

(Sorry, my tweet upthread said 1,200 bed ship when it has 1,000 beds, and a crew of 1,200)

There are more people with coronavirus on the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt than aboard the hospital ship Comfort that's been docked in Manhattan for nearly a week now

Update: despite the Navy's extraordinary efforts to keep its Manhattan hospital ship free of sick people, someone on board has gotten coronavirus.

The hospital ship Comfort (capacity 1000) has so far treated fewer than 30 people. Any patients who get sick are kicked off the ship. This unorthodox but energetic approach to health care will no doubt soon become the national standard.

This expensive metaphor for American capitalism was converted from an oil supertanker, and can travel at 17.5 knots to wherever there is an urgent need for lack of health care

Your tax dollars at work

The hospital ship Comfort has left Manhattan after treating 173 patients. This great symbol of America, an oil tanker converted into an expensive military vessel that doesn't deliver health care, is now headed to wherever it can fail to do the most good

My bad, it hasn't left Manhattan yet (thanks @FiloSottile!) but Cuomo says it is no longer needed and is free to sail off elsewhere