Army Corps of Engineers commander says more New York-style pop-up hospitals coming soon

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.foxnews.com/media/army-corps-engineers-new-york-hospitals

Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, told Fox News' "The Story" Monday that residents of Chicago and
other parts of the country can expect to see pop-up field hospitals like
those appearing in New York City to help fight the coronavirus contagion.

Seminote praised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill
de Blasio, saying that his team was able to help transform the Jacob
Javits Center on Manhattan's West Side into a 3,000-bed field hospital for
non-coronavirus patients in a matter of days.

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"Governor Cuomo called us two weeks ago," Semonite told host Martha
MacCallum. "He said 'Hey, I need to be able to have some help in New York
City.' [Defense] Secretary [Mark] Esper asked me to go up on behalf of
FEMA to figure out how can we come up with some type of a plan to help New
York City. We basically created ... a standard [hospital] design. We made
this very, very simple."

Semonite added that the system has enabled officials to quickly and
effectively determine where and how to set up hospitals for overflow
patients and take into account whether they will be treating coronavirus
or non-coronavirus patients.

The commander also said he is working with Illinois officials to prepare
the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago into a field hospital as
well.


"We are going to take the McCormick Convention Center and we're going to
stand up about 3,000 COVID beds [in] three different sections," Semonite
said. "Some will have different types of capability. We expect to have the
first 500 of them done by the end of the weekend. We want to go very, very
aggressively."

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Host Martha MacCallum noted that New Orleans is quickly becoming an
epicenter of the contagion, and asked if the Mercedes-Benz Superdome --
home of the NFL's Saints -- is being considered.

"We have got about eight gigantic contracts going in right now tonight
across the United States -- about 8,500 rooms," Semonite said. "In the
next couple days, we will write seven more big contracts [for] about
another 3,000 [rooms]."



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