New York saw glimmers of hope in its coronavirus fight, despite announcing a record number of deaths as it prepares to treat COVID-19 patients in a cathedral and on a ship.
Volunteers began turning Manhattan's vast Cathedral of St. John the Divine into an emergency field hospital as Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed the navy's USNS Comfort would now tend to coronavirus patients.
"So this is not outside the experience of being a cathedral, it is just new to us," he wrote on Twitter. The church field hospital will be staffed with personnel from the Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, located next door to the cathedral complex.
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