[ April 16, 2024 ]
The US military is now working on plans to takeover hotels, college dormitories, sports arenas and turn them into ICU-like medical facilities.
Army to deploy to New York after Trump declares major disaster: Troops to turn hotels and sports arenas into hospitals as lines form outside hospitals, ventilators run low and almost two people an hour die in pandemic in NYC
- President Trump declared New York State a major disaster area Friday as coronavirus cases skyrocket
- The declaration allows New York State to access federal aid via FEMA’s $42billion Disaster Relief Fund
- The US military is now working on plans to takeover hotels, college dormitories and sports arenas and turn them into ICU-like medical facilities
- The emergency declaration comes as New York State and city hospitals run out of face masks and ventilators
- In New York City, 14 people died between 10am and 6pm Friday – the equivalent of almost two people an hour
- Trump’s declaration was issued Friday night, four days after New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo asked for it
- This is the first time in US history a president has declared a major disaster over a public health threat
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Donald Trump has declared New York State a major disaster area as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases skyrockets and New York City was declared the epicenter of the US outbreak by city Mayor Bill de Blasio.The US military will now be called in, and the US Army Corps of Engineers have said they plans to take over hotels, sports arenas, college dorms and other buildings in a bid to bolster the number of available hospital rooms.
Story continues below advertisementDe Blasio had urged Trump to send in the military and its logistical support to hard-hit New York State, California and Seattle on Wednesday. On Friday de Blasio said: ‘We constitute 30 percent of the cases in the US and 70 per cent of the cases in New York State. Whether we like it or not, we are the epicenter.’
The president’s declaration comes as a hospital in the Bronx revealed it is running low on ventilators and a Queens doctor revealed that an elderly patient experiencing coronavirus symptoms died on the hospital ward floor.
On Friday, patients were seen lining up around the block at test centers in New York City as they tried to get tested for the disease. One video showed hundreds lining up waiting to be tested at Queens’ Elmhurst Hospital.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo had asked for the major disaster declaration, which paves the way for the federal government to pay for up to 75 per cent of the state’s bills for its emergency response to the pandemic.
New York State now has the most confirmed COVID-19 cases in the nation, with 8,515 diagnoses and 56 deaths, as the number of confirmed cases shot up by more than 2,000 between Thursday and Friday. The sudden leap in cases has been attributed to more people now being tested for the disease.
De Blasio said during a press conference Friday that there are 5,151 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the nation’s largest city – more than a fourth of the nation’s total cases. The number later rose to 5,683.
In New York City between the hours of 10am and 6pm on Friday, 14 people died from coronavirus, meaning almost two people an hour died, as the total number of deaths in NYC reached 43 people.
The National Institutes of Health Friday warned that up to 70,000 Americans could be confirmed as having coronavirus by the end of next week in ‘dramatic increase’ of cases, up from the current tally of more than 19,600 confirmed cases.
The emergency declaration issued Friday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency provides access to $42billion in aid from the Disaster Relief Fund, the New York Post reported.
FEMA will now be able to send personnel and resources to the state, as well as set up mobile coronavirus testing centers, disinfect public facilities and provide in-demand medical supplies including face masks, gloves and surgical gowns.
The declaration also allows the US military to make further assistance plans.
Pentagon officials said Friday that the US Army Corps of Engineers is preparing plans to take over as many as 10,000 hotel rooms, college dorms and other building spaces in New York State to help provide medical services and accommodate virus-related hospitalizations, according to the WSJ.
When requested by state officials and FEMA, the Corps of Engineers would make contracts with hotels, college and potential sports arenas as the first step in turning them into ICU-like medical facilities.
The military had previously said that it will be making two hospital ships and more than five million face masks, coronavirus test kits and ventilators available to regions that are most in need.
Ventilators are in huge demand across New York State.
At the Bronx’s Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a doctor told the New York Times that they only had a few ventilators left for coronavirus patients who needed them to breathe.
Meanwhile, New York-Presbyterian Queens doctor Saquib Rahim told the WSJ that an elderly patient with COVID-19 symptoms died on the floor of the hospital ward, as the number of both potential and confirmed cases multiplied over the week.
A memo sent to nurses on Thursday stated that ‘Beds are needed desperately’ and asked them to ‘ACTIVELY participate in the Discharge planning for your patients.’
‘We’ve never seen anything like this,’ Dr. Rahim told the WSJ.
Face masks are also in short supply.
Doctors at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital Center said that they were resorting to coating their masks – which were being reused for up to a week – in hand sanitizer between shifts, according to the New York Times.
Earlier in the week, an intensive care nurse at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, said nurses are being asked to re-use masks if they have only been with patients a short time – raising their risk of infection, because supplies were running so low.
‘We don’t want to reuse a mask that we’re going to touch with our hands, our bare hands, and then go and put it back on our face when it could have the COVID virus on it,’ nurse Michelle Gonzalez told CBS 2.
‘We find it important that we don’t reutilize these masks so that we don’t put the rest of our community and our fellow co-workers at risk.’
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20 Comments
4 years ago
Open Borders DeBlazio and Fredo’s bro aren’t managing their resources very well, despite the extremely high taxes their NY residence pay for services.
4 years ago
Reply to
FormerlyNicab
It goes in the pockets of politicians and favors for friends.
I RESENT absorbing the costs of this for ILLEGALS who shouldn’t even be here.
4 years ago
Reply to
FormerlyNicab
De BLAHsio is a COMMUNIST who hates America. WHY WOULD HE CARE IF AMERICANS DIE? So, why would they try to manage resources at all? AMERICANS NEED TO MOVE OUT OF NYC and be FREE of Communist rule.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
I agree that they should move out, but they need to leave the politics that made NYC what it is in NYC.
4 years ago
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6143589956001#sp=show-clips
chloroquine; reaction from Dr. William Grace, oncologist at Lenox Hill hospital in New York City.
4 years ago
Safe Spaces to Shoot Dope,…. make Safe Spaces to contract Coronavirus ?!!
Makes about as much sense !!
4 years ago
yeah…take notice of what happens in dimokkkrat controlled cities.
4 years ago
Reply to
blackfeather
DEMS totally trash cities. Name one DEM controlled city they haven’t trashed wth trash.
4 years ago
ABC World News reported last night…
That New York was gonna dip into their back-up reserves for needed supplies… <<< WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Just now!?!?!?!?!?!? After 5 ER doctors have died from CV19!?!?!?!?!?!?!? UGH... who trusts their government?
4 years ago
We should sent CHINA the bill for HIDING this and being so DISHONEST!
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I’m all for making China pay. But, first things first. How man Americans died from the MEXICAN Swine Flu? How long did Mexico hide information for that dreaded disease? How DISHONEST was Mexico, to the rest of the world, about that disease? And, what was the United States’ reaction? Keep bringin’ in Mexicans and putting them on full-blown U.S. taxpayer support.
4 years ago
ABC World News reported last night…
America has been shipping metal framed Hospitals and supplies to other infected countries… <<< WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!? When America is suffering from their own shortages!?!?!?!?!?!?!? When other countries around the world are locking America out from medications!?!?!?!?!?!? When we have Americans dying here!?!?!?!?!?!? UGH... who trusts their government?
4 years ago
Reply to
sumsrent
Its OK. Trudeau gave China 16 tonnes (metric, so about 40 tons) of medical materials such as gowns, gloves, masks, et cetera. So you buy the stuff from China, pay for shipping, then send it back at your own cost as “aid” to the very place it came from and where the materials were made.
Meanwhile, not enough of these materials for Canadian medical personnel, and shortages of these materials for the population.
What a man!
What does China turn around and do? Give the same materials to a very thankful Hungary, Poland, Italy, Iran.
He is the man-child that lives in a bubble called his mind.
4 years ago
Not exactly the US Army with guns, tanks, and missiles. It’s the United States Army Corps of Engineers. This is a federal agency under the Department of Defense that primarily oversees dams, canals, and flood protection in the United States, as well as a wide range of public works throughout the world.
4 years ago
Jesus, please have mercy on the people of New York. Take the souls of the dead to heaven, heal the sick, comfort the survivors, and guide the people who are making decisions. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for them and for us, amen.
4 years ago
Gee can only notice the three places named are sanctuary places run by Democrats and the rest of us get to pay the bill for their stupidity.
“De Blasio had urged Trump to send in the military and its logistical support to hard-hit New York State, California and Seattle on Wednesday. On Friday de Blasio said: ‘We constitute 30 percent of the cases in the US and 70 per cent of the cases in New York State. Whether we like it or not, we are the epicenter.’”
4 years ago
Sanctuary City defined: A Disaster Area!
4 years ago
The shortage of masks and other essential equipment for medical personnel is not acceptable!!! A sister, 2 cousins, 3 nieces, friends, all are nurses and are scared! They have few masks, and none are the correct type to ward off any type of microbe! We keep hearing that masks are coming but WHEN? It’s as if the Fed wants medical personnel to become infected! I’m becoming less and less confident in what the CDC or our government is telling us! Surprise!!!
4 years ago
Proven – when Rats are packed into a confined space, they breed disease and die.
Why should the rest of us pay 75% of New York’s medical costs?
I guess “Mini-MIke” gets his wish … if you are ‘older’, just go home and die.
Maybe now something will be done about the criminals and ILLEGALS in New York.
