US navy hospital ship reaches virus-struck Los Angeles
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Los Angeles (AFP) March 27, 2020
A giant US naval hospital ship arrived in Los Angeles Friday, where it will be used to ease the strain on the city's coronavirus-swamped emergency rooms. The USNS Mercy, which docked in the Port of Los Angeles, will quickly become the city's largest hospital with 1,000 beds. It will not receive coronavirus patients, but instead take patients with a wide range of other conditions or injur