The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort is moored in New York City to support the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts, March 30, 2020. Subscribe to Dr. Justin Imel, Sr. by Email
Sailors Aboard USNS Comfort Prepare to Deploy
Sailors aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) prepare to deploy in support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts and will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients currently admitted to shore-based hospitals. This allows shore-based hospitals to focus their efforts on COVID-19 cases. One of the Department of Defense’s missions is Defense […]
Jacobs Javits alternate care site in response to COVID-19
The Javits Center will be converted to a temporary medical facility to ease the bed shortage of New York Hospitals as part of the state response to the COVID 19 outbreak. More than 2,000 New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are on duty as part of the response effort. Subscribe to Dr. Justin Imel, […]
Allied airlift delivers COVID-19 supplies to Slovakia
A NATO strategic airlift programme helped deliver urgently needed medical supplies to Slovakia on 25 March 2020. An Antonov AN-124 transport ferried facemasks, surgical gloves, protective suits and other supplies on a nonstop flight that started in Leipzig/Halle airport, Germany, stopped for cargo in Tianjin, China, and landed in Bratislava. The aircraft was chartered under […]
USNS Mercy arrives in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (March 27, 2020) – Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) arrives in Los Angeles, March 27. Mercy deployed in support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts, and will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients currently admitted to shore-based hospitals. This allows shore base hospitals to focus their efforts […]