New York is in a race against the clock to deal with the coronavirus. The megalopolis, epicenter of the epidemic in the United States with more than 33,000 cases and almost 800 deaths, mobilizes significant resources to cope with the influx of patients. A military ship arrived Monday in the city's harbor, while a field hospital was set up in the heart of Central Park.
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A hospital ship with a capacity of 1,000 beds
The image is striking: a huge military boat, all white, with its red crosses on the hull that passes in front of the Statue of Liberty to moor in Manhattan, against the background of the skyline. The USNS Comfort, a hospital ship with a capacity of 1,000 beds and 12 operating theaters, arrived in New York on Monday. It is intended to relieve New York hospitals of patients requiring intensive care not related to the coronavirus.
One of the images that will remain in the history books on this pandemic. # COVID19 # coronaviruspic.twitter.com / mrr0Il6bbM
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A field hospital in the middle of Central Park
Another striking image: a field hospital is being set up in the heart of Central Park. The location was chosen because it is opposite one of the hospitals of the Mount Sinai group, in the East Harlem district. The structure is set up by Samaritan's Purse, an evangelical humanitarian organization based in North Carolina and who sent around sixty people there. The field hospital will have a capacity of 68 patients and should be operational by Tuesday.
Watch: Construction work for a coronavirus field hospital in Central Park, New York, began on Sunday and is expected to be operational on Tuesday https://t.co/OX30til4Orpic.twitter.com/YyQQAp7vnI
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A pallet carrier that deposits bodies in a refrigerated truck
New York gives the impression of being a real war zone. Deaths are accelerating to the point that bodies are now kept in refrigerated trucks. A video moved New Yorkers this weekend: a pallet-carrying machine that deposits bodies, wrapped in body bags, in one of these refrigerated trucks:
#United States - The corpses of people infected with # COVID19 # coronavirus loaded in a large industrial refrigerated truck.
Video filmed at Brooklyn Hospital in New York.
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city still urgently needs some 400 life-saving breaths and medical staff just to keep the week going. And this, while the peak of the epidemic is not yet expected before, at least, two to three weeks.