Temporary Hospital in NYC To Care for COVID-19 Patients

Hospital bed booths are set up at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center which is being turned into a hospital to help fight COVID-19 cases in New York City on March 27, 2020. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the temporary hospital facility in New York City at the Javits Center will be used to care for COVID-19 patients.

The Javits Center temporary hospital in New York City’s Manhattan borough will now be converted into a 2,500-bed emergency medical facility for COVID-19 cases to be staffed by the U.S. Army and the federal government, Trump said.