Accession Number: 2020-035-05
Original work: oil on linen
Original size: 16.5 by 48 inches
In March of 2020 President Trump ordered the US Navy’s two hospital ships to America’s two largest cities. The USNS Comfort was sent to New York City and the USNS Mercy was sent to Los Angeles. On Monday 30 March the USNS Comfort arrived in New York Harbor for the first time since the terrorist attacks in September, 2001 to aid in hospital relief during the COVID-19 virus worldwide pandemic. The ship was docked at Pier 90 on the Hudson River in mid-town Manhattan and adding a highly-trained Navy medical staff, twelve operating rooms, a laboratory and pharmacy, and 1000 beds to releive area hospitals of non-COVID-19 patients while the hospitals handled mainly virus cases. After a few days area hospitals were vastly expanding their ICU capabilities and releif wasn’t critical, so the medical staff of USNS Comfort also started handling cases of the virus as well.
On 21 April 2020 the Comfort was ordered to be prepared to leave by the end of the month to return to its home base in Norfolk. On 30 April the Comfort left New York after providing expert care for 182 patients. During their stay in New York, several of the crew tested positive for the virus and upon arrival in Norfolk the entire crew began a two-week quarantine.
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