Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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Multiple patients infected with coronavirus were transferred to the hospital ship Comfort from the Javits Center in New York by mistake, three U.S. officials tell Fox News.

The number of Covid-19 patients brought on board the hospital ship was estimated to be “less than five,” one official said.

This information has not been previously reported.

The patients were transferred sometime Friday, according to the officials. At the time the patients were transferred to the hospital ship Comfort, the initial screening did not indicate they were positive, officials said.

The hospital ship is located on Pier 90 on Manhattan’s west side and arrived in New York Monday. The vessel has a “couple dozen” patients on board right now, according to chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman.

Part of the protocol before receiving patients onboard Comfort is for a coronavirus test to be performed. The swab test came back hours later, the patients remained in isolation and spent a night onboard the vessel, which is only supposed to treat trauma patients, not Covid-19 positive patients.

About a dozen patients from the Javits Center in midtown Manhattan were transferred to the hospital ship Comfort one day after President Trump approved New York Gov. Cuomo’s request to have Covid-19 patients treated at the Javits Center.

All the patients at Javits Center were then transferred to the hospital ship a short distance away where they were isolated and tested for the novel coronavirus.

Up to the point of embarking aboard the hospital ship, the patients had only filled out a questionnaire and had their temperature taken as part of an initial screening process. It’s been reported that half of people infected with coronavirus show no symptoms, according to the latest data.

The Covid-19 positive patients have already been delivered back to the Javits center Saturday morning to continue their treatment, one official said.

The Javits Center has been transformed into a 3,000 bed makeshift hospital by the Army Corps of Engineers.

The officials called the risk to the hospital ship’s crew “low,” because of the protocols were already in place.

“We were prepared with a contingency plan in case we received patients that later tested positive. Immediately upon arrival the patients were isolated while awaiting the test results,” the official added.

Another official pointed out this was why the hospital ship did not want to fill all 1,000 beds on board too quickly because the risk of the virus coming on board is so great.

The Comfort crew is scrubbing the area where the patients were housed on board. All U.S. Navy medical personnel were wearing complete PPE (personal protective equipment), the officials added.

“We have infectious disease specialists on board as well,” another official said.

Cmdr. Ashley Hockycko, spokeswoman for U.S. Second Fleet, told Fox News: "While admitting patients who were transferred to USNS Comfort for treatment, a few patients tested positive for COVID-19.

"The Comfort has infection control procedures that are followed just like hospitals ashore. Our medical experts on board are well prepared for cases like this, and have taken the appropriate precautionary measures. The patients were isolated and received care aboard the ship while working to transfer the patients as soon as practical to the Javits Federal Medical Station, which is treating COVID-19 patients. The Comfort is capable of continuing its mission.”

Right now both hospital ships Comfort in New York and Mercy in Los Angeles do not take Covid-19 patients, but top Pentagon leaders are “reassessing” that policy, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley, told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner Friday afternoon.

That decision is “not imminent,” a Pentagon spokesman later said in a press conference Friday.

The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 3,500 people in New York, a number that has doubled since Wednesday.

A group of teens were caught on camera flouting social distancing rules as they brawled outside a Brooklyn apartment building, video posted on social media shows.

The nearly two and a half-minute clip recorded Thursday afternoon and posted on Facebook shows nearly two dozen teens pushing, shoving and punching each other outside an apartment building on Mother Gaston Blvd. near Eastern Parkway in Brownsville.

Some of the teens jumped up on parked cars and ran into the middle of the street, blocking vehicles trying to pass through, the video shows.

“This is no mother f------ social distancing, this is getting into it!” the man recording the video says from inside a passing car.

“This is like some World War Z s---, yo!” the man said, referencing the zombie apocalypse movie staring Brad Pitt.

Police arrived within minutes and broke up the fight, with one cop grabbing a young woman — wearing a mask — and throwing her into the street, the video shows.

The window to the apartment building was shattered, but no injuries were reported.

An NYPD spokeswoman said that cops were called to the scene after someone reported two people with a firearm.

No weapons were recovered, nor was anyone arrested or given a summons, the spokeswoman said.

I think it will remain a matter of individual choice. People are not all that herd-like. They don't all wear the same style of they clothing etc. They get piercings and tattoos if they feel like it regardless of who approves or not. People do what they want and most others mind their own business.

I finally got one mask made after five hours of sewing. I don't know if I should be proud or embarrassed about the time it took to make one mask.

It won't kill you if you aren't yet ill before and care about the symtoms of a cold as you should. It seems aggressive to the lungs and the heart because of the damage of the lungs. You have to rest a lost and you should take a lot of vitamin C and skip caffein. Then it's not a big thing. Otherwise it may kill even quite young people. It useless to be scared. Just be prepared to any fight that you can't really prevent.

COVID-19 mortality rates for the elderly are very high. Putin is 67 years old. So he is vulnerable.

COVID-19 mortality rates for the elderly are very high. Putin is 67 years old. So he is vulnerable.

But may be we need better viruses. The number of people on this planet is still rising. We should mix corona with something like ebola to change this. It wouldn't change the fact that life is deadly enough that nobody will survive it either.

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They will individualize in the designs on the mask they wear. There will be trends in styles.

I want a VERIFIABLE source which states that new hospitalizations have gone down in NYC.

The figures, as stated on the www1.nyc.gov, reflect the fact that there is a delay in the data.

It would be nice if this represents an actual trend.

I can never understand the logic of someone genetically engineering a virus to kill people. Why would you want to extinguish the human race? I think this is an elitist phantasy. Somehow they think they might kill off the masses but then they would be the ones that survive. "Murphy's law" always says otherwise.