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The U.S. Naval Hospital Ship Comfort arrived at Pier 90 in New York on Mar. 30, 2020.

With the capacity of 1,000-bed 12 operating rooms, a medical laboratory, and more than 1,000 officers, the Navy hospital ship will take patients with other medical problems to relieve New York hospitals overrun by coronavirus infected patients.
However, the ship only treated 182 patients in three and a half weeks despite high expectations to help ease the strain on overburdened city hospitals dealing with the novel coronavirus outbreak. After all, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said its facilities were no longer needed and that the Comfort officially departed New York harbor on Apr. 30, 2020.
