A hospital ship has also arrived in the Big Apple and a convention centre is being converted into a temporary hospital.
I've seen them in war zones, I've come across them after natural disasters, but never have I seen a field hospital anywhere like Central Park.
And yet in some ways the sight of white hospital tents sitting in the shadow of Manhattan's skyscrapers, doesn't feel all that strange. In these times, nothing surprises.patients will be inside, being treated by medics more used to hurricanes, earthquakes and conflict.A 10-bed intensive care unit will treat the most poorly; 54 more beds will take patients out of the Mount Sinai health system.
In a few days it will become another centre of this spreading global crisis, but all the while New Yorkers will continue to jog, walk their dogs and wheel their children around it. Bizarre.In some ways it was a good start to the week for New York - not only will the field hospital help relieve pressure but the opening of a vast convention centre with 2,500 beds, and the arrival of a hospital ship with 1,000, should collectively give some needed respite to the overwhelmed medical system here.
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