Army Corps of Engineers eyes 114 sites to convert to hospitals in coronavirus fight
Source: The Hill
The Army Corps of Engineers is eyeing at least 114 facilities to potentially serve as hospitals to treat patients during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Army Corps has assessed 81 of the locations including hotels, sports arenas, convention centers, college dormitories and fairgrounds that could either accept patients who have contracted COVID-19 or treat non-infected individuals in order to free up overwhelmed hospitals, Gen. Todd Semonite told reporters at the Pentagon on Friday.
Semonite said many of the facilities being eyed by the Army Corps are in Washington, California and New York. The corps is already in the process of converting New York Citys Javits Center into a 2,900-room hospital. Several more sites are expected to be in use next week in cities like Sacramento, Calif., Seattle and Chicago, where the McCormick Place Convention Center has been targeted as such a facility, Semonite said.
Once a facility is confirmed, the city would then lease it and the corps would hire contractors to complete construction to convert the site within weeks. Weve already cut contracts and were cutting contracts every night to be able to get contractors to be able to come into the facilities, Semonite said.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/489941-army-corps-of-engineers-eyes-114-sites-to-convert-to-hospitals-in-coronavirus
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)Add these seven:
https://www.trumphotels.com
they are being leased, not taken over. That means money goes to the owner presumably.
elias7
(3,991 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,157 posts)I remember several years ago an apartment fire started and the basic fire protection was mentioned.
dweller
(23,612 posts)now
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gibraltar72
(7,498 posts)jmowreader
(50,528 posts)CenturyLink Field doesnt have a roof. If they want to convert a Seattle stadium to a coronavirus hospital, the retractable-roof baseball stadium right next door to the Clink will be much better.
gibraltar72
(7,498 posts)marble falls
(57,000 posts)rockfordfile
(8,695 posts)marble falls
(57,000 posts)assets commandeered.
bucolic_frolic
(43,044 posts)I don't know the logistics, obviously, but it would seem to me quicker to use a cookie-cutter approach to existing rooms like dorms and hotels, but hey do what you have to do. Still more is needed not to mention the critical component - ventilators.
We are witnessing the real time consequences of Just-In-Time, originally applied to manufacturing about 25-30 years ago, to health care. And by a parallel comparison, it's applicable to the debt laden companies that will declare bankruptcy. In previous economic crises, prudent businesses were not overleveraged, they timed expenditures to the business cycle. Financial engineering discovered that there was an optimal debt-equity ratio that maximized the value of the company, usually at least 70% debt. So no one has much of a reserve there either.