From CNN's Ryan BrowneThe Pentagon announced Thursday that it has awarded a $15 million contract to the operators of the Javits Center to convert the facility into a hospital by April 9 to help alleviate the burden the coronavirus is placing on civilian hospital infrastructure.“New York Convention Center Operating Corp., New York, New York, was awarded a $15,250,000 firm-fixed-price contract to retrofit the Jacob K.
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said this earlier this week that he anticipates the field hospitals being used to temporarily alleviate the strain on civilian hospitals in order to allow the US Army Corps of Engineers to retrofit hotels, convention centers and college dormitories into makeshift hospitals.
“How I foresee our hospitals being used is during the early stages of the pandemic, the virus hitting a city where they're still trying to ramp up capability, bed space, we can come in for a short period of time, for a few weeks to provide that capacity until they get either gyms converted, hotels converted, college dorms converted, all those things that the Corps of Engineers is working on right now," Esper said.
cnnbrk If only trump didn't call it a hoax at the beginning there would be alot more people alive today.
cnnbrk Because our country is gigantic with eons more people. What craziness are y’all reporting
Coronavirus Look things opened for raison God is foolish like all you.this is most racist xenophobic discrimination and hate also killing innocent people just for your ego. US,Italy,China,France,Brazil,Israel cet..change your attitude and repent or you will pay heavy price
Fake news.
No shit? Whats the population of each country? You are a bunch of hacks.
Embarrassing, shameful and heartbreaking
Yay MURICA!!! Trump is WINNING! Obama never had numbers this bigly before!
Can the Clinton's News Network just word it another way. No one wants to Lead in cases. Sensationalism FakeNews FakeNewsCNN MediaBias you are the enemy of the people. 👎🏻👎🏻
Are you going to put this in context to total population or continue fear mongering.
CNN , FAKE NEWS and enemy of the people. Liars. We are testing more people. Out of 350 millions 1500 deaths, most old people with conditions. CNN is interested in destroying the US with their lies and panic.ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
cnnbrk Is this a contest? 😒🤦🏽♀️
Please do the math
68,440 according to CDC. I'm more inclined to believe them than the fake news. And saying we have more cases than a country that has 20% of our population is comparing apples and oranges and is, as usual for cnn(fake news), misleading.
Deaths are 0,00039 % of the US population !!!
If this keeps up, it'll eventually match the total of H1N1 cases in the US during the Obama presidency. We have a LONG way to go before that happens, though.
.cnn doesn’t even try any more. Why not put the % in the headline instead of total numbers?
Per capita, what does it mean?
And low death rates per every 1 million. So we are doing better than others.
And how do the fatality rates compare?
Fake news network against POTUS and his achievements, liars.
Italy is small country with 60 millions of people while the US have more than 330 millions of people so yes, you will have more cases.
That's mainly because our government will not make it a mandatory quarantine for the entire U.S . We'll all have the virus and most will perish.
Simple math guys; more tests; bigger population USA is about 5 times bigger than Italy. USA has less than 10,000 cases more than Italy. Not even 2 times more so RELAX
no shit bigger the country/population bigger virus spread master of obvious spin it anyway u want virus has no boundaries only preventative measures and sounds like virus is gonna win just a matter of how prevalent
Italy is not even as big as California. Calm down people...its not as bad as it seems.
cnnbrk 😓🙏
Oh no... 😭🙏🏻
I just want this all to end 💔💔💔
God bless the USA and our President Trump and Vice President Pence for doing everything and anything possible to stop this Chinese coronavirus from spreading even more and killing our faith and spirit. DemocratsStopTheHate ThankYouPresidentTrump
Americans must stay at home ok. Lock down is the only way to save yourselves because no antidote available for Corona ok. Stay at your home and save the lives.....I pray to Almighty Allah to protect the whole world from Corona ( covid 19)
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According to Orange Man this is fake news
cnnbrk realDonaldTrump VP Today, God has decided it is time for you to start paying for your sins.
Those numbers are human lives. No matter who is lying, it's not the priority right now. Be safe and save lives. This is the priority.
where are those people now who called COVID-19 dumb
realDonaldTrump you did it you made the US the new epicenter. Be proud. On a serious note: dude this isn’t a contest of who got the most. Sometimes it is ok not to be the greatest at something.
Sooo sorry but I guess the “Hoax” approach was always a bit iffy
You really believe anything China says? You’re a fool
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cnnbrk Breaking news: news companies have been using fear to keep people glued to the TV to boost ratings so much that people are now starting to not give a shit anymore.
Oh - we have passed China as well. But we have tested 600K already . . . China has been at 81K for a week - they forgot there is a backside to the ‘curve’ China has just stopped testing. OR . . they are not being truthful? (Hint . . you trust them?)
how crazy is that
You guys are dumb beyond measure. If you really want to inform people, then compare oranges to oranges. A country with over 350 million people cannot be compared to one thats 1/7 it’s size. What’s the rate per million people and subsequent death rate! After all you can’t add.
Thanks China!
In your own narrative what is the infection rate per capita.
what if china's goverment lies , now has US 80.000 more cases so. Is it fact change?
We have more flu cases as well.
Last night CNN called Trump liar, because he did not convert his number to a per capita number. Now they’re doing the same thing. HYPOCRITES.
Look at the population of Italy and US. Take your time, think and then realise. FakeNews
You’re fake news
1) the US has 5.5x more people than Italy 2) anyone who believes China in regard to their reporting on COVID-19 has no business reporting the news
Forget that stuff, tell us how the Kennedy Center is doing!
Disgusting fear mongering by CNN.... The population of Italy is 60 million. The population of the United States is 330 million.
Everybody knows China is far beyond 100,000 people. They are lying their ass off about this.
AND NOW IT BEGINS 🤨🤨🤨
So... 1) You guys trust China's numbers? HA. 2) How many TESTS have we done vs Italy and others? Hacks. Fake news.
People let’s remember this when they have to eat their words. Absolute stinkers!!
If you believe numbers from China your network are bigger fools than previously thought.
JUST IN: CNN is fake news and LOVES to spread panic.
Now report the deaths. It’s a sneaky little thing you guys do. Fear mongering.
Trump: The wrong president at the wrong time.
This isn’t a race.
It's pretty grim over here in Italy, despite excellent work by the authorities and health care professionals. Health care system near collapse. Good luck, y'all. You're gonna need it.
Now more than China!
6x the population will do that. We have less deaths. And we’ve done more testing. Lying by omission.
why is there no more influenza when they started to test covid-19 massively?
Didn’t you listen to Trump’s update, oh of course you didn’t. American has a greater population you imbeciles. Keep reporting the way you do and scare America!
Now do per capital hospitalization and deaths you fear mongering fukwits. Shouldn't you be helping curb this with useful information?
Its the 2020 Olympics metal count
Population is over 5x that of Italy. Now do death rates. And recovery cases. And don’t cut away from the daily briefing. Fake News gonna fear monger to its sheep.
Well, the ratio of people in the usa to italy is 5:1 so theres really no surprise there...
Some context would be nice. Fear mongering is unbecoming.
That’s what freedom looks like!
cnnbrk In a minute. US always NO. 1. US first.
Isn’t that like saying Fox News viewers have more coronavirus victims than CNN? I mean, no one watches CNN.
But i thought you all said Trump wasn't testing, if he isn't testing how could they identify so many cases so fast.
cnnbrk CNN is fake news...should be taken off air. Disgusting!
cnnbrk Because too many Americans can't even follow simple guidelines.
Dun forget the 91% recovery rate while we are at it. amazing WorldIsDying ChinaSurvives DontBeNaive
Allah will help some one to control with a powerful vaccination soon. IA
I have a breaking story to share about Covid-19. I cannot get a hold of the news networks. Anyone have a news network contact for me? DOJ just released a stern warning about anyone knowingly spreading Covid-19 and it just happened overnight by an MVM worker out of Mississippi.
Reminder: The population of the US is 545% greater than Italy.
you can beat china..you go usa
You might as well say.. we surpassed chinas number of reported cases CNN.
CNN cannot control their happiness. CNN is The Enemy of The People.
But Italy is a MUCH smaller country.
Still feels like CNN is fear mongering.
Donald Trump refuses to not be 1 at everything he does.
More cases than China now. AmericaFirst
It is ridiculous to see your comments. Those countries that have no measures against coronavirus are laughing at China that actively responds to the virus! Are you qualified to laugh?
Just In : United States of America has 5 times as many people Italy has
New name , the GOP flu!
We’re about to take China’s record.
cnnbrk Gee USA just a wee bit bigger than Italy and China probably biting 50% of the real numbers.
It’s OVAH! Tens of millions of Americans will die. The economy will crash and burn. Wall Street will crumble forever. This will make The Great Depression look like a keg party. The nation will take 20+ years to recover. Tens of millions of Americans will be homeless.
And 99.5% will live
As of March 26,18:48 EST there have been 83144 confirmed cases and 1201 deaths due to coronavirus in the United States. The USA has now unfortunately the highest number of infections and it's just starting. Please hammer the message home to listen only to the medical experts!
So what is your point? We all knew that testing would increase the number of known positive cases. So that number is irrelevant in comparison to other countries. What is important is what percent of those tested with symptoms are negative. 70% of those with symptoms are negative
As of now, Accor to W. H. O., it is 83,016 confirmed case—we have passed China. We now have the most cases in the WORLD.
Tell that to SpeakerPelosi who is still playing politics
Sorry: USA83,097+14,8861,198+171
It's not a friggen competition you know?! TYPICALYANKS
cnnbrk Hey President Orange McBonespur realDonaldTrump, I thought this was another “hoax” and that it will just “go away.” What happened, dude? TrumpLiesAmericansDie TrumpPlague COVFEFE45 IMPOTUS
Well duh we are huge and we were not prepared thanks to orange face. Can we talk about something uplifting ?
🚨Just In🚨 Facts ⬇️
unfortunately now you are first with 82404, and sadly this is just the beginning! USA is a great country and I HAVE NO DOUBT will overcome this challenge but the price is going to be BIG! TrumpLiesAboutCoronavirus trumpIDIOT
Obama told Americans: “we don’t need to think we should have the best medical system in the world”. Now CNN suck on that!
cnnbrk Kind of expected that, we are a bigger country!!
The manure the Dem governors and never Trumper governors are slinging is silly. Is Coronavirus different than any other flu or are the commies, the dem governors and never Trumpers trying to stop POTUS from another 4 years. Looks like that is the story. Fake
Drivel.... how about throwing in the population differences... BS news
To put things into context, accounting for the difference in population: 0.133% of Italians vs. 0.025% of US population. However, we are 14 to 16 days behind Italy, so there's plenty of time for our percentage to increase unless we continue to try to slow the outbreak down.
And how many has Italy tested vs how many we have tested? needs to take a remedial journalism course. Unless you’re intentionally pushing an agenda perhaps
So that is enough to defeat Trump? Congratulations CNN your propaganda would earn fruits
cnnbrk We are now ahead of China!
covid-45 bloodinhishands The virus should be renamed covid-45. Blood on his hands.
cnnbrk HealTheWorld WHO 😢
Hit the refresh button & we’ve probably passed China !!!!
cnnbrk Well we’re number one now
US population: 327 million Italy population: 60 million
cnnbrk old news. US has surpassed China now confirmed by John Hopkins University
America was not prepared, because the rich have not paid their taxes for forty years. America has the most cases, because the rich have not paid their taxes for forty years. America will not manage the crisis effectively, because... America must TaxTheRich.
I thought this was a hoax? 🙄 I am extremely concerned for Americans. The numbers are devastating and many people are unfortunately going to die 😔
China is not gonna tell you the real numbers
Yea I’m sure China is telling the truth
cnnbrk Ok.. is there a point to this.
You get that the US population is 5-1/2x the size of Italy’s, right? Per capita, please. You are comparing apples to oranges. It’s 2020, and the quality of CNN’s analysis and reporting is in the dark ages!
cnnbrk Wrong
“Reported” is the operative word there.
This shit is getting worse .....Lord have mercy🙏🙏🙏
You might want to check that tally again.
China numbers are fake
We are testing more than anyone else. I don’t believe a thing out of China. Liars.
CHINA 👏 IS 👏 LYING 👏
Not surprisingly, sooner or later we will be defeated by you, you are a real world power, first place, congratulations
Make America Great Again..
Fear mongering
Lol. Way to split hairs here. Okkkkkkk. Now we’re ahead.
And a President in denial. Good luck folks.
Trump sleeping
Please tell us what our population is compared to Italy’s?
How do people believe this propaganda? You guy just make these numbers up!
愿上帝保佑你们
Well realDonaldTrump did want to make us 1 again.
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