I assumed it was there for overflow of non-covid patients, is that not the case? Are NY hospitals over capacity?
edit: seems this is addressed later in the article but for some reason NYT is paywalling/registerwalling this after the fold for me.
edit: seems this is addressed later in the article but for some reason NYT is paywalling/registerwalling this after the fold for me.
> Ambulances cannot take patients directly to the Comfort; they must first deliver patients to a city hospital for a lengthy evaluation — including a test for the virus — and then pick them up again for transport to the ship.
> Ultimately, Mr. Dowling and others said, if the Comfort refuses to take Covid patients, there are few patients to send. And given the pernicious spread of the disease in New York City, where nearly 50,000 were infected as of Thursday, dividing patients into those who have it and those who do not is pointless, he said.
> Mr. Dowling said he has had to tear his hospitals apart, retrofitting any unused space, including lobbies and conference rooms, into hospital wards. His facilities now house 2,800 so-called Covid patients, up from 100 on March 20, he said.
> Across the city, hospitals are overrun. Patients have died in hallways before they could even be hooked up to one of the few available ventilators in New York
I think it's safe to conclude yes
Trivial to skip, had you bothered to look into it, or understand how it works. Why even reply if you hadn't read TFA? What value does that have? The very definition of 'off topic'