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We're living in unprecedented times with a pandemic gripping the globe, shutting down entire economies and overwhelming medical systems. It's a situation on a scale none of us has ever experienced before, and so we're all just doing our best.
With New York City quickly becoming the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., President Trump dispatched the USNS Comfort, the world's largest hospital ship, to provide relief to hospitals already stretching their resources.