The Central Park tent hospital, in America’s coronavirus epicentre, is the group’s first medical deployment in the United States. Rubber boots hung from a tree of wooden pegs in soggy Central Park on Monday, April 14, 2020, after being sterilised at a field hospital dedicated to patients with the coronavirus, in New York, Monday, April 13, 2020. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)The 68-bed field hospital in Central Park has 10 ICU beds and ventilators, seven of which were being used at the beginning of this week. Thus far, Samaritan’s Purse leaders said, none of its workers have fallen ill at the New York field hospital or at a similar one in Cremona, Italy. For the New York field hospital, the group brought its own isolation suits, face shields, rubber boots and gloves, which workers wear in a double layer.

Source: bd News24 April 15, 2020 21:00 UTC