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Remember That Hospital Ship NY Desperately Needed? Yeah, Cuomo Now Says It’s Not Needed.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo repeatedly claimed his state needed 30,000 ventilators to handle all the cases of COVID-19.

Turns out he didn’t — not even close.

And the Democrat also said hospitals across the state were going to be overrun with critically ill patients, so he persuaded the federal government to pitch in millions to turn the massive Javits Center into a field hospital and rush to overhaul a U.S. Navy hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, outfitted with 500 beds to handle the overflow from packed hospitals.

Turns out Cuomo didn’t need either of those.

“The president sent up a Navy ship, the Comfort. A hospital ship which was very good to have if we need overflow,” Cuomo said Tuesday on MSNBC. […]

Read the full story from The Gateway Pundit


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