$21 Million NY Field Hospital Closes Without Seeing Patients

$21 Million NY Field Hospital Closes Without Seeing Patients
An Air Force member exits a tent erected as a makeshift morgue outside of Bellevue Hospital in New York City on March 25, 2020. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
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The emergency hospital that took nearly $21 million to build closed down without seeing a single patient, New York officials told The City.
Mayor Bill de Blasio approved the project that converted the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook into a 670-bed field hospital, the outlet reported. He announced on March 31 it would be built to handle overcrowding in New York hospitals due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease.