Watch as the USNS Comfort arrived in New York City yesterday, as the city prepares for a surge of new coronavirus cases.
New York is the hardest-hit part of the country so far, accounting for almost half of the more than 143,000 COVID-19 cases in the U.S. The virus has infected more than 60,600 people in New York, according to Johns Hopkins University, and killed at least 2,571 people across the U.S.
The Army Corp of Engineers has been called in to identify other sites around the city and state that could be converted to help increase the state's hospital capacity. "We need to triple our hospital bed capacity in New York City by May," de Blasio said in front of the Comfort on Monday. "It's a daunting task, but we got a big, big boost with the arrival of the Comfort. This is like adding a whole 'nother hospital to New York City."
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