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The bow of a large white ship with a red cross and lettering that says, “U.S. Naval Hospital Ship Comfort.”

USNS Comfort

Supplies and personnel are loaded aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. March 27, 2020. The Comfort deployed March 28, 2020 in support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts in New York City and will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients admitted to shore-based hospitals.

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