Originally Posted by
etudiant
Given the tight crew space allocation on military ships, any CoV infection will spread rapidly. So these ships are crippled.
Meanwhile, the Navy's 2 hospital ships have been sent to help NYC and San Diego. Maybe that will be reconsidered.
The navy ships are pretty zero use in a covid outbreak because of exactly the same reason. My understanding is that they are there to take the pressure off ER by taking the coventional ER cases allowing the a land based ones to a concentrate on covid. The hospital are setup and equiped for combat injuries so disease control would be somewhat limited