The U.S. military is preparing to deploy field hospitals to New York and Seattle...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military is preparing to deploy field hospitals to New York and Seattle, the Pentagon said on Monday, as its top civilian and military leaders acknowledged for the first time that the coronavirus pandemic could impact military readiness.
U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the armed forces had been preparing administratively since Feb. 1 for the possibility of providing the U.S. government support in a pandemic-like scenario. This includes sending military hospital ships to Los Angeles and New York City and tasking the Army Corps of Engineers to convert hotels and dormitories into treatment facilities for sick patients. Tens of thousands of National Guard are eventually expected to be deployed nationwide.
“What we want to do is make sure that the local communities take care of the coronavirus patient and we can handle the excess capacity that they won’t have in terms of trauma ... and other more routine cases,” Milley said.
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