The U.S. Navy has two hospital ships, with one headed to Los Angeles and the other to New York City.
The U.S. Navy has uploaded videos to YouTube showing the inside of the hospital ship USNS Mercy.Mercy and her sister ship comfort will provide medical services to Los Angeles, New York City.COVID-19 pandemic
. Designed to deal with mass casualty events such as major wars, the hospital ships are being woken up from reserve status and readying to sail to both coastlines. The U.S. Navy’s two hospital ships are kept on inactive status with skeleton crews, typically requiring about five days to prepare for emergency deployment. Once activated, each 894 foot long, 63,000 ton vessel becomes a fully capable hospital, with 1,000 hospital beds, eleven operating rooms, 80 intensive care beds, and a radiology suite.
but instead concentrate on trauma and other care cases, allowing hospitals ashore to concentrate their attention on fighting the pandemic.is based at Norfolk, Virginia, and will head to New York City in the coming weeks. The deployment caughtas the ship was undergoing a series of upgrades, delaying the ship’s activation.
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