NEW YORK — The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort has arrived in New York.
Thanks to Earthcam, we got to see images of the ship making its way up the Hudson River and docking in its temporary home in New York City.
The Comfort will not focus on fighting the coronavirus. Instead, it will concentrate on other medical needs, freeing up bed space in hospitals in the city for dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Norfolk-based USNS Comfort shipped out for New York on Saturday. President Donald Trump was present for the send-off and made remarks before the naval hospital ship departed from Naval Station Norfolk.
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The 894 foot long, 63,000-ton vessel is about to become a fully capable hospital, with 1,000 hospital beds, 11 operating rooms, 80 intensive care beds and a radiology suite.
Along with 63 civilian merchant mariners, the Comfort can accommodate up to 1,300 doctors, nurses, corpsmen and ship's crew, with medical personnel assigned from existing naval hospitals and medical facilities.
Last fall, the Comfort took part in a five-month humanitarian mission in Latin America called Continuing Promise. The ship's medical personnel provided medical, surgical, dental, and optometry services during 12 mission stops.
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