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US Navy hospital ship sent to support COVID-19 fight in LA leaves after treating just 77 patients in 7 weeks
Much like its sister ship, USNS Comfort, the USNS Mercy was consistently underused during its weeks…
Ryan Pickrell
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The hospital ship Trump sent to Los Angeles to support COVID-19 fight stopped taking patients after treating just 77 people
The ship discharged its last patient on Tuesday, five days after the large hospital ship stopped re…
Ryan Pickrell
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How USNS Comfort went from a symbol of hope with the president's blessing, to heading back from NYC having treated fewer than 180 patients
But it turned out that the city didn't have many non-coronavirus patients to take, with only 20 pat…
Ashley Collman
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The 500-bed US Navy hospital ship Comfort is leaving NYC after treating just 179 patients in 3 weeks
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the president that NYC no longer needs the ship. It will now be sen…
Ashley Collman
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The hospital ship USNS Comfort is treating only a small number of patients, but the military is scrambling to fix that
Patient screening will include a temperature check and a questionnaire. A negative COVID-19 test is…
Ryan Pickrell
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After sailing into New York less than a month ago, the USNS Comfort is set to discharge its last coronavirus patient
According to a report by ABC7, the USNS Comfort will be discharging its last coronavirus patient on…
Libertina Brandt
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A 1,000-bed US Navy hospital ship is deploying to New York to brace for coronavirus - see inside the USNS Comfort
New York has 50,000 hospital beds and 3,000 intensive care unit beds, but a "Wuhan-style" outbreak …
Brittany Chang
The USNS Comfort wasn't originally designed to handle the coronavirus — here's how the Navy redesigned the hospital ship to take and treat patients effectively
The US Navy Hospital Ship Comfort is docked in New York City to treat coronavirus patients. But tha…
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The USNS Comfort wasn't originally designed to handle the coronavirus - here's how the Navy redesigned the hospital ship to take and treat patients effectively
In the "red" zone are the doctors and the nurses that interact with patients. Once the medical staf…
Anneke Ball,Lauren Shamo
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A USNS Comfort sailor tested positive for the coronavirus hours after Trump let the Navy ship start taking COVID-19 patients
"There is no impact to Comfort's mission, and this will not affect the ability for Comfort to recei…
Ashley Collman
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Photos show the 1,000-bed Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort arriving in New York to support the city in its flight against coronavirus
While New York is now considered the US epicenter of COVID-19, no coronavirus-positive patients wil…
Brittany Chang
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The US Navy is fighting a coronavirus outbreak on the hospital ship USNS Mercy
In addition to small outbreaks aboard the Navy's hospital ships, the service is battling outbreaks …
Ryan Pickrell
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Beyond the cruise ship graveyard: How old cruise boats get a second life as hotels, shelters, and artificial reefs
Decommissioned cruise ships often end up in scrapyards where they are torn apart piece-by-piece. Ot…
Brittany Chang,Hannah Towey
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The US Navy is preparing 2 fully-equipped hospital ships to help fight coronavirus 'trauma' cases
"One of the ways by which you can use either field hospitals, hospital ships, or things in between,…
David Choi
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This is the $13 billion US Navy aircraft carrier Trump constantly complained looked 'really bad,' according to his former defense chief
Trump's former defense secretary said that he had tried to address Trump's complaints about the shi…
Julie Coleman
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New York hospital ship tries to stay in virus-free 'bubble'
The 1,000-bed USNS Comfort, previously deployed to conflict and natural disaster zones, was sent to…
PTI
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The US Navy will be deploying its 'floating hospital' to help in the coronavirus fight in New York
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Navy announced that efforts to deploy the USNS Comfort to the st…
David Choi
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Engineer tries to ram speeding train into US Navy hospital ship over fears that COVID-19 is 'leading to a government takeover'
A California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer recounted watching the train barrel at full speed "into a…