LOS ANGELES - A giant US naval hospital ship arrived in Los Angeles on Friday , where it will be used to ease the strain on the city's coronavirus-swamped emergency rooms.
It will not receive coronavirus patients, but will instead take patients with a wide range of other conditions or injuries, in order to free up facilities on land. It"will free up valuable beds that today are 80 per cent or 90 per cent filled already, to be able to deal with the onslaught of the Covid-19 patients that we see," Garcetti said in an earlier briefing on Thursday.
California officials lobbied intensely for the ship to come to Los Angeles, overriding a competing claim from northwestern Washington state which is also badly affected but less populous.
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