What is the benefit of having a naval hospital ship being nearby to the public?
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In a normal situation you might have as many as 1% of citizens admitted to a hospital in a year. If the current epidemic is to spread throughout the entire population we might see about 10% of citizens requiring medical attention. If this goes uncontrolled then they might all require medical attention within the next couple of months. And this is all happening while medical workers get sick as well and end up being too ill to treat patients or might even require hospitalization themselves. And we need medical personnel to conduct all the tests to map out the spread and have some sort of hope of controlling the spread of the virus. Needless to say there is a big demand for hospital beds and medical personnel. So almost every country have mobilized every field hospital their military have access to in order to help out the situation. The United States Navy have activated their hospital ships normally used for was zones and disaster relief. USNS Comfort have been docked in New York and USNS Mercy is heading for Los Angles. They are as well equipped for handling a pandemic as the hospitals, field hospitals and converted hotels are but they will receive patients who would normally have been admitted to a regular hospital so that those hospitals can be dedicated to helping patients of Covid-19.
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