The 42 remaining patients on board theUSNS Comfort, this military hospital ship called in to reinforce New York during the COVID-19 crisis, will all be transferred out of the ship by Sunday.
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All that remains is to fix the details of the transfer, according to Northwell Health, the New York State Health Network.
The Comfort, with a capacity of 1,000 beds, has been docked in New York for weeks to ease the burden on local hospitals amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Originally, the ship’s staff were only supposed to treat patients who did not have COVID-19, but the U.S. military later decided to accommodate all types of patients on the ship, regardless. their condition.
More than one in five New Yorkers (21.2%) has already been infected with the coronavirus, according to preliminary results from a study carried out on a sample of 3,000 people, the governor of New York said Thursday.
This recent study is “the most important” to date carried out in this state of some 20 million inhabitants, the hardest hit by the epidemic, to detect the presence of antibodies indicative of a coronavirus infection, a explained Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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