Army Corps has a plan to convert hotels, dorms into coronavirus hospital rooms. Here's how

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Army Corps has a plan to convert hotels, dorms into coronavirus hospital rooms. Here’s how
By Tara Copp
March 20, 2020 06:56 PM
Army Corps planning to convert 10,000 New York empty hotel rooms to treat coronavirus patients
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to create more than 10,000 hospital beds in New York City to treat coronavirus patients by converting empty hotel rooms, college dormitories and potentially even large sporting events centers. By U.S. Department of Defense


The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to convert more than 10,000 empty hotel and college dorm rooms into hospital rooms to treat coronavirus cases in New York City and is considering similar operations for Washington state and California, the Corps’ commanding general said on Friday.

“These hotels are empty. The people don’t have jobs,” Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, chief of engineers and commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, told reporters at the Pentagon.

“We’ll go in and cut a contract and be able to have the state set up a lease for that particular facility, and then we would then take the building over. And in an exceptionally short amount of days we would go in and turn this into an ICU-like facility,” he said, referring to hospital intensive care units. The final plan still has to be approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he said.

The Corps of Engineers is in talks with governors in Washington state and California about taking similar action, he said.


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