Will 1,000-bed hospital ship sail for Seattle or Los Angeles to help amid coronavirus pandemic?

Crews have five days to get the Navy hospital ship Mercy, ready. The question is: where will it go?

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The same day, California Gov. Gavin Newsom penned a letter to the White House requesting the ship to come to Los Angeles, saying it would “help decompress our current health care delivery system." The hospital ship isn't ideal for quarantining those suffering from an infectious disease. Its benefit is having a moveable, large-scale trauma care ward that can help take the pressure of those acute cases off of area hospitals so they can focus on treating those afflicted with novel coronavirus, Burford said.

There's only one other hospital ship in the fleet, the Norfolk-based USNS Comfort. The White House said earlier this week it would go to New York.Carnival Corp. also said this week

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