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Javits Center’s Pop-Up Hospital Will Take Covid Cases After All
Rooms for patients are set up at a temporary hospital in the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York.
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The emergency hospital constructed at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan will begin taking Covid-19 patients, rather than serve as an overflow facility only for non-coronavirus patients as previously planned, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said late Thursday.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers erected a 2,500-bed hospital in the convention center on Manhattan’s West Side that became operational Monday. As recently as Thursday morning, Cuomo was saying it would take non-Covid patients to free up bed space in existing facilities. Covid-19 is the disease caused by the new coronavirus.