A view of the USNS Consolation on the Pier 90 on April 1, 2020 in New York Metropolis. The Consolation, a naval hospital ship, is provided to soak up sufferers inside 24 hours however is not going to be treating sufferers with COVID-19. The ship's 1,000 beds and 12 operation rooms will assist ease the stress on New York hospitals, a lot of which are actually overwhelmed with COVID-19 sufferers.
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WASHINGTON The Pentagon introduced Friday that it's going to modify the screening course of for folks to obtain care on the hospital ship USNS Consolation in an effort to scale back the backlog of sufferers at New York hospitals.
The screening effort will now happen pier-side and can now not require a affected person to check destructive for the coronavirus.
"Every affected person will nonetheless be screened by temperature and a brief questionnaire," the Pentagon mentioned. "This help will additional unburden the native hospital and ambulance methods in these areas, permitting them to concentrate on the extra critical COVID-19 instances."
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