Why does anyone listen to this lying propagandist?

[Valentina327]

Yesterday NPR interviewed staff on USNS Comfort and they are not prepared to deal with Coronavirus patients. They are there to take care of the other emergency care patients so that NYC hospitals can be free to care exclusively for CV19 patients. At the time, they had only 20 patients but stated that there were complications in getting non-cv-19 patients to the USNS and expected those numbers to go up.

They are operational but their role is limited. Same with Samaritan's Purse field hospital in Central Park.

You lie! As of yesterday they had 22 patients.

I hope they can become fully operational soon. The federal government is moving way too slowly on everything.

I hope so too but are they outfitted and will they take in Covid-19 patients? Currently, they are not admitting patients who are CV-19 symtomatic. Currently, patients but be evaluated at city hospitals and test negative for CV-19 before being transferred to USNS. It sounds as if it's administrative hurdle rather than actual medical aid.

It is a beautiful ship and looks good on video.

I thought I understood them to intentionally not be taking covid patients, that their purpose was specifically to take the non-covid cases and let the hospital concentrate on covid. I was guessing that was likely to keep people separated that had other medical issues, so that they didn't risk being in the same space and possibly picking covid up. I understood it to be purposeful and not an administrative hurdle.

[Della]

Since there is more of a need for beds for infected patients it would make more sense for the ship to take the people with the virus. Otherwise it's not that useful.

The Javitz Center has 1000 beds in NYC and is taking COVID patients. I would imagine you can not just move people out of a hospital and on to a ship that quickly. I am sure those beds will be filled within the next few weeks.

I wouldn't expect them to be moved. I would think they would want the ship for new patients. Cases haven't even peaked yet. I understand wanting to have something for non-covid patients but the need for covid patients is greater.

These ships should not be used for Covid patients. They're no better equipped than cruise ships to handle a fast spreading virus. On the ground hospitals, built in days by the ACoI is a better solution.