Andrew Cuomo
NEW YORK (77 WABC) —Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the Javits Convention Center in New York City will turn into four federal emergency hospitals to accommodate 1,000 people with Covid-19. Each hospital will have the capacity to serve about 250 people.
The construction will begin this week and the hospitals will be up and running in about 7-10 days. “To free beds in the hospitals, we will be using these 1,000 emergency beds,” says Cuomo. The Javits Center will serve as a backfill for the hospitals.
Besides the 1,000 emergency beds, the Governor wants to make an additional 1,000 beds available for a lighter level of medical care. 2,000 beds could potentially fill up the showroom floor of The Javits Center.
Governor Cuomo says about 320 federal employees will be staffed to work in the four hospitals.
