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Did the federal government support New York with emergency hospital capacity ahead of the April coronavirus peak?

Tuesday, May 12, 2020
By Mikayla Campbell
YES

COVID-19 cases peaked in New York state on April 7. U.S. authorities by that point had converted a New York City convention center into an auxiliary hospital, with capacity for 2,000 non-COVID patients to relieve what were then expected to be overburdened city hospitals.

The Navy dispatched a hospital ship on March 30. The Comfort arrived in New York on March 30 and treated 182 patients before transferring its last patient to a local hospital on April 26.

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