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USNS Mercy Supports COVID-19 Response Efforts

  • Defense.gov
  • April 6, 2020 | 1:32

The Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy deployed to Los Angeles in support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts and is serving as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients. It is providing a full spectrum of medical care including general surgeries, critical care and ward care for adults. This will allow local health professionals to focus on COVID-19 patients and for shore-based hospitals to use their intensive care units and ventilators for those patients.

Video edited by Army Staff Sgt. Almon Bate, DOD