The 1,000-bed hospital ship, which arrived in New York Monday, has treated 27 patients as of Saturday morning, according to a Navy spokesperson.
Hospital leaders in New York City have criticized the Comfort’s deployment for not accepting COVID-19 patients and failing to provide tangible relief to strained hospitals.
Who the h-e-double-hockey-sticks signed off on the transfer order? Not their name, their ears.
Multiple coronavirus patients are accidentally transferred to 1,000-bed Navy hospital ship docked in NYC which is currently caring for just 21 patients and meant to be COVID-19-free
[Daily Mail, of course]
- Multiple coronavirus patients have been accidentally transferred to a New York military hospital ship that was meant to be virus-free
- Less than five patients with the virus were transferred from the city's Javits Center to hospital ship Comfort on Friday, which has received 21 patients
- At the time, screenings did not indicate they were positive for the deadly virus
- However, the patients were swabbed and put in isolation upon arrival to the boat, per the ship's protocol
- By Saturday morning, all the coronavirus positive patients were taken back to the Javits Center