12 US COVID Field Hospitals Constructed at $532 Million Are Standing Down Having Treated 82 PatientsArchived Message
Posted by Subhi on May 9, 2020, 12:38 am
" The US allocated and spent $660 million for the US Army Corps of Engineers to build (largely through private contractors) 17 field hospitals for the prophesied surge in Covid-19 patients.
Of these four never opened. Of the 13 completed 9 have yet to treat a single patient, while the other four have treated 6, 37, 39 and 1095 patients respectively.
Excluding the hospital improvised in New York’s Javits Center which has a capacity for 1900 patents but treated 1095, the other 12 completed hospitals treated 82 patients combined. Many have now closed"