The 1,000-bed ship, the Comfort, with 12 operating rooms, a medical laboratory and more than 1,000 Navy officers, will treat patients who do not have the virus. The city’s hospitals are now so full that paramedics in the field are forced to make on-the-spot judgments about who lives and who is left to die.
USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) is the third United States Navy ship to bear the name Comfort, and the second Mercy-class hospital...
