Doctors’ fury as red tape leaves Navy ship caring for only 20 patients

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Doctors’ fury as red tape leaves Navy ship caring for only 20 patients
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USNS Comfort’s 1,000 beds are almost entirely empty – even as New York constructs tent hospitals to cope with outbreak

, the Navy has provided hospitals with a list of 49 medical conditions that would rule patients out from boarding the ship, and there is an absolute ban on bringing anyone testing positive for coronavirus aboard for fear that the Comfort will prove impossible to disinfect afterwards.

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