One Week Window Left for New Field Hospitals, Says Army Engineers Chief

U.S. Army National Guard members walk through the Jacob Javits Center on Manhattan’s West Side in New York City on March 23, 2020. Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images

The window of opportunity is rapidly shrinking for mayors and governors to green light field hospital construction, said the head of the army’s engineering corps.

A final total of between 40 and 50 hospitals will probably be built by the army Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, told reporters on April 8.