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Doctors and medics work in a ship’s operating room.

Patient Information

Navy Cmdr. (Dr.) Travis Harrell, right, a cardiologist from San Diego, enters patient information into a pacemaker programming system aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy, April 29, 2020. The Mercy deployed in support of the nation's COVID-19 response to serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients admitted to shore-based hospitals. The strategy allowed shore-based hospitals to focus their efforts on COVID-19 cases.

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