The Navy’s hospital ship on the west coast is “a matter of days” from leaving its home port of San Diego to help in the coronavirus response, but its east coast counterpart is still weeks from getting underway, a Navy official told Yahoo News Thursday morning. The two ships – the Mercy in San Diego and the Comfort in Norfolk, Va. – are being readied for duty, but were each undergoing maintenance when it became clear their assistance would be required to relieve overwhelmed civilian hospitals. Officials announced Wednesday that the Comfort, which has about a thousand beds and twelve operating theaters, would be heading to New York City harbor, but no West Coast destination has yet been announced for the Mercy.
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