Posted on 03/27/2020 10:18:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Los Angeles (AFP) - A giant US naval hospital ship arrived in Los Angeles Friday, where it will be used to ease the strain on the city's coronavirus-swamped emergency rooms.
The USNS Mercy, which docked in the Port of Los Angeles, will quickly become the city's largest hospital with 1,000 beds.
It will not receive coronavirus patients, but will instead take patients with a wide range of other conditions or injuries, in order to free up facilities on land.
The ship will help "ease the burden on our emergency rooms and ICUs when the cases of Covid-19 grow in the weeks ahead," tweeted Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday.
It "will free up valuable beds that today are 80 percent or 90 percent filled already, to be able to deal with the onslaught of the COVID-19 patients that we see," Garcetti said in an earlier briefing on Thursday.
The 894-foot (272-meter) USNS Mercy hospital ship, a converted oil tanker, has 15 patient wards and blood bank capacity of 5,000 units.
California officials lobbied intensely for the ship to come to Los Angeles, overriding a competing claim from northwestern Washington state which is also badly affected but less populous.
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Has it been looted yet?
Trump rulz LA.
Awesome!
I got 50 bucks on it having a covid 19 case discovered within 72 hours of becoming operational
No, but they be shakin’ up the paint cans right now to cover it with graffiti just like a box car.
Looting comes next then homeless lying about the gangway.
I wouldn’t touch that bet with your money.
The crap is virtually everywhere. I’m beginning to think it is carried on the wind.
Hmmm...I suggested that last week and was scorned. Was particularly concerned about the smoke from China’s crematoriums.
Can the Queen Mary be converted to an emergency hospital?
I’m beginning to think it is carried on the wind.
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https://www.micropia.nl/en/discover/news/2018/2/19/flying-viruses/
I’m surprised the military-hating left haven’t sent the ship away
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