Iconic sites are hastily being prepared for the surge expected after US overtakes China with most deaths
Refrigerated tractor trailers that can be used by hospitals for makeshift morgues during the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Icahn Stadium parking lot on Randall's Island in New York City. Picture: REUTERS/BRENDAN MCDERMIDEmergency field hospitals were readied in New York’s Central Park and at the home of the US Open tennis tournament as the number of US deaths from the coronavirus pandemic surged past 4,000 — higher than the toll in China.
Declared coronavirus cases across the US surged to 189,510 early on Wednesday, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University, with 4,076 deaths. That is already more than the 3,310 fatalities reported by China. A police officer takes a selfie in an almost empty Times Square, in New York on Tuesday. REUTERS/BRENDAN MCDERMID
It will take non-Covid-19 patients to ease the burden on hospitals focusing on the virus. A few blocks away at Pier 90 sits the white, imposing US navy hospital ship Comfort, with 1,000 beds and 12 operating rooms — also for non-coronavirus patients.
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