WEST SIDE, Manhattan -- The USNS Comfort sailed into New York Harbor on Monday as the Jacob Javits Center prepared to open as a medical facility to increase hospital capacity in New York City amid the ...
NEW YORK -- The Navy hospital ship sent to relieve stress on New York City hospitals at the height the pandemic is discharging or transferring its last 12 patients this weekend as it nears the end of ...
NEW YORK — By mid-day Tuesday, the Norfolk-based Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort was up to 44 patients. Five of them tested positive for the coronavirus. One of them is a member of the ship's own ...
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The hospital ship USS Comfort will stop excluding patients who have the coronavirus, officials have announced. The Navy ship has sat largely empty off the west side of ...
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his state didn’t utilize a Navy ship to combat the spread of COVID-19 because it was “never needed,” citing shifting circumstances in March 2020. President ...