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Navy Hospital Ship Still Weeks Away From Arriving In New York City To Help Battle COVID-19
The U.S. Navy is planning to deploy the USNS Comfort, one of its two hospital ships, to New York City to help support response efforts related to the rapidly expanding COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, despite promises to send it “immediately,” that ship isn’t set to arrive in New York Harbor for weeks, by which time the situation on the ground there may have significantly changed.