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New York’s Javits Center Has 44 Virus Cases With Room for 1,700

  • Governor says Trump has authorized virus patients on Comfort
  • Hospital ships Comfort, Mercy treating fewer than 100 patients
Rooms for patients are set up at a temporary hospital in the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, on March 27. 

Rooms for patients are set up at a temporary hospital in the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, on March 27. 

Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg
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New York’s Javits Convention Center has only 44 coronavirus patients in treatment so far, and will have a 1,700-bed capacity by Friday, the Pentagon said, in a sign the emergency facility provided by the military can offer more relief for the city’s overwhelmed hospitals.

The Javits center is being used largely for coronavirus patients while the Defense Department maintains its position that the USNS Comfort, a hospital ship anchored in New York, is better-suited to free up space in hospitals by taking patients not known to have the virus.