Captain John Rotruck, commanding officer of the USNS Mercy, talks with Rachel Maddow about the ship's mission and capabilities as it arrives in Las Angeles to help California hospitals deal with non-COVID-19 patients as the number of infected people continues…

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US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort docked on Pier 90 in Manhattan on the morning of March 30 to alleviate the burden that New York City hospitals have been facing amid the coronavirus pandemic. The ship houses 1,000 hospital beds, 12 operating rooms, 80 inten…

President Donald Trump left Washington for the first time in nearly two weeks to visit a Navy hospital ship dispatched to New York City to add some much-needed hospital support amid the coronavirus outbreak.

President Donald Trump on Saturday gave remarks as the USNS Comfort, loaned to the novel coronavirus cause by the U.S. Navy, departed for New York.

The USNS Comfort is heading to the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The ships will treat patients who don't have coronavirus.

Two US Navy hospital ships sent to ports in California and New York will help ease the burden of hospitals immersed in treatment of coronavirus patients.

The US Navy is deploying hospital ships as part of the country's fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Pentagon is halting all overseas travel for U.S. troops for up to 60 days in an effort to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to a U.S. official.

"I will turn this state upside down to get the number of beds we need, but we need the staff for those beds," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said California hospitals need 50,000 additional beds along with billions of pieces of medical gear in response to the coronavirus, according to a recent report. The state is improvising new locations for beds on hospital campuses…

The vessel, which has been docked in San Diego, will now make its way up the West Coast to provide 1,000 beds.

President Donald Trump approved the US military's deployment of a Navy hospital ship to Los Angeles to bolster coronavirus response efforts. Trump confirmed that the USNS Mercy, an "incredible" hospital ship that's docked in San Diego, will be "immediately" d…

President Donald Trump announced at the White House Sunday that he had activated the National Guard in California, New York, and Washington.

The state is currently in the process of acquiring and converting two hospitals devoted to treating coronavirus patients.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a letter to President Donald Trump on Thursday asked to "immediately deploy" a United States Navy hospital ship to the Los Angeles port to assist in the coronavirus outbreak. The state experienced 126 new coronavirus cases, a 2…

As the number of infections has proliferated around California, authorities have embraced increasingly stringent restrictions on public life.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday that the USNS Comfort will be deployed to New York harbor amid the coronavirus pandemic. The USNS Comfort is a 1,000-bed hospital ship that has provided humanitarian relief and been deployed to war zones a…

USNS Comfort will be deployed to New York, and USNS Mercy, to the West Coast

Defense Secretary Mark Esper made clear to CNN that two Navy hospital ships being deployed to help respond to the coronavirus outbreak will not treat patients suffering from the virus and will take weeks to deploy.

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https://t.co/nspZH6xZD8 Retired Navy nurse who served on both hospital ships - USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy. Real life M*A*S*H stories. Alan Alda has been diagnosed with Parkinson's. Are you watching? @USNavy @USNSComfort #usnsmercy @alanalda @PMDAlliance @HodaAndJenna https://t.co/DN1DQXGH93

RT @willardmarine: U.S. Military and civilian personnel board a 33’ Willard Marine Crew Transport boat, aka a “Band-Aid boat”, from the Mil…

Is PLAN introducing her own version of USNS Mercy Pacific Partnership mission? @sueahearn @TommyMa37208308 @AlexLuck9 @zach_ota https://t.co/ycAuFAqF9o

Mercy being refuelled at sea by USNS Tippecanoe, April 2005 during the ship's mission to aid people following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami https://t.co/uaaYziQQT2

RT @WarshipCam: USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) Mercy-class hospital ship coming into San Diego - May 25, 2023 #usnsmercy #tah19 SRC: webcam https:/…

Do you think the SDP could procure a cruise ship or oil tanker to keep on the Delaware as swing space? Floating school is pretty ridiculous first blush, admittedly, the analogue would be USNS Mercy for disaster relief. we’re money+plan+time away from enough swing space though

RT @WarshipCam: USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) Mercy-class hospital ship coming into San Diego - May 25, 2023 #usnsmercy #tah19 SRC: webcam https:/…

RT @WarshipCam: USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) Mercy-class hospital ship coming into San Diego - May 25, 2023 #usnsmercy #tah19 SRC: webcam https:/…

RT @WarshipCam: USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) Mercy-class hospital ship coming into San Diego - May 25, 2023 #usnsmercy #tah19 SRC: webcam https:/…

RT @WarshipCam: USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) Mercy-class hospital ship coming into San Diego - May 25, 2023 #usnsmercy #tah19 SRC: webcam https:/…

USNS Mercy ……Converted from an oil tanker to a fully equipped 1000 bed hospital inbound to her homeport.. https://t.co/U7yqrleU2V

RT @WarshipCam: USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) Mercy-class hospital ship coming into San Diego - May 25, 2023 #usnsmercy #tah19 SRC: webcam https:/…

USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) Mercy-class hospital ship coming into San Diego - May 25, 2023 #usnsmercy #tah19 SRC: webcam https://t.co/Ihp7zmFlzY

RT @GorillaB5: @GolfElkLife @I_Am_JohnCullen @drtaubraun Same in L.A. Convention Center. It looked so fake like a movie shoot. USNS Mercy a…

The world's two biggest hospital ships, USNS Mercy and Chinese Navy Daishan Dao, sailing side by side during RIMPAC 2014 https://t.co/W4lLb9hEk4

RT @decker_jules: @captsingh @ANAAnasil37 Not as lovely or thrilling as so many of yours, but I did hurry down to the river bank this after…

USNS Mercy, on the Columbia River and headed out to the Pacific after drydock repair in Portland. Look how she dwarfs the freighter next to her. https://t.co/r9JS476oms

WAVY's Navy Ship Salute looks at the USNS Comfort, a Mercy-Class hospital ship delivered to the Navy in 1987. Since, it has been on many missions providing mobile acute surgical medical care to the U.S. military along with hospital services worldwide. https://t.co/kMbJFJLKt1

Hospital ship USNS Mercy https://t.co/gWkPnjcy0r

RT @WarshipCam: USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) Mercy-class hospital ship leaving San Diego - January 18, 2022 #usnsmercy #tah19 SRC: TW-@cjr1321 htt…

RT @PortofLA: Quote from Tom Gazsi, Port of Los Angeles Chief of Public Safety and Emergency Management, on the USNS Mercy. https://t.co/NO…

What were the quickly constructed field hospitals at the beginning of “covid “ really for? The almost completely unused USNS Comfort & USNS Mercy? ... anyone? wondering? @FoxNews @I_Am_JohnCullen KNOWS the correct answer! Check out his work! https://t.co/qqMc6QM7Dv

RT @Paula610: @LionHeart17Q @1kay9 @DubGeigh @realstewpeters Remember the USNS Mercy during the pandemic, that did not house Covid patients…

RT @HomefrontHugs: While in Guam for a logistics stop with USNS MERCY T-AH 19 on #PacificPartnership2022, 2 heroes saved life of military w…

RT @HomefrontHugs: While in Guam for a logistics stop with USNS MERCY T-AH 19 on #PacificPartnership2022, 2 heroes saved life of military w…

RT @HomefrontHugs: While in Guam for a logistics stop with USNS MERCY T-AH 19 on #PacificPartnership2022, 2 heroes saved life of military w…

#OTD USNS MERCY T-AH-19 An MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter flies near the hospital ship as the vessel returns from deployment in the Persian Gulf area during Operation Desert Storm, 1991. #history #desertstorm32 #desertstorm #gulfwar #gulfwar32 #PersianGulf https://t.co/cpvDjkKFt2

Interesting. Water is essential to life yet heavy to transport. Don’t need a CVN designed for combat air operations; better to build a nuclear “hospital ship” designed to these uses. Much cheaper and the future will fill it’s dance card. The USNS Mercy can’t last forever. https://t.co/lJTypm96I8

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RT @QuincyAdams1825: @DrOz The U.S. admin should consider sending USNS Comfort & Mercy to the bay of Iskenderun in coordination w/ Turkey’s…

Engineer intentionally derails train near USNS Mercy, believing bizarre ... https://t.co/EeOjoRIzSU 2020

USNS MERCY at the Port of Trincomalee. https://t.co/pZxdW84SwC

The images and reports on the news out of Turkey and Syria are staggering. We should be sending the USNS Comfort and Mercy to help with this crisis.

RT @Bryan1819News: @alx Hospitals are preparing for an influx of epic proportions from a drinking game related to the State of the Union ad…