After a nearly-month-long mission helping New York in the COVID-19 pandemic fight, hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) will leave its temporary berth – likely for its Virginia homeport – and prepare for a possible assignment elsewhere. Medical teams aboard Comfort, which last month quickly activated and deployed from Norfolk, Va., treated a total of 182 patients over a three-and-a-half week period in support of the domestic coronavirus mission intended to ease pressures on local hospitals. That was far fewer than public assumptions and expectations for the floating 1,000-bed hospital, which arrived just as the New York City region saw surges … Continue reading Hospital Ship Comfort Ends NYC COVID-19 Mission After Treating 182 Patients