Video Of The USNS Comfort Hospital Ship Arrives in NYC

The US Navy hospital ship arrived at the pandemic in New York City worsens.

With a crew and staff of 1,200, the ship will immediately add 1,000 beds to care for non-COVID-19 patients. This will permit local hospitals to be more responsive.

The ship left Norfolk Virginia on Saturday and arrived today.

Originally built as an oil tanker, it was later converted by the US Navy into a massive floating hospital. It was last seen in New York Harbor during the aftermath of September 11th.

The ship was escorted buy a combination of US Navy, and NYPD ships and helicopters.

Governor Cuomo said that this is certainly will help, but we will still need to more than double the existing capacity of about 50,000 beds in New York City in order to handle this crisis in the weeks to come.