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Sending in the troops:

• https://www.dailymail.co, By ARIEL ZILBER

With tens of millions of Americans on lockdown and more expected, the United States military is likely to take on a greater role in helping to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the coming days and weeks.

The US Army Corps of Engineers is looking at converting more than 10,000 rooms in New York, potentially in hotels and college dorms, into medical care units to help address the fast-spreading coronavirus, the commanding general of the Army Corps said on Friday.

President Trump on Friday declared New York State a major disaster area as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases skyrockets and New York City was declared the epicenter of the US outbreak by Mayor Bill de Blasio.  

The pandemic has upended life in much of the United States, shuttering schools and businesses, prompting millions to work from home, forcing many out of jobs and sharply curtailing travel.

Lieutenant General Todd Semonite told reporters at the Pentagon that the Army Corps was looking at converting the rooms and other large spaces into intensive care unit-type facilities and it would need to happen within weeks, not months.

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Are the confirmed CV cases only that some sick people have CV in them? Or is it the CV that is doing it? Or is it an immune system weakened by past immunization that is doing it? OE maybe it is a combination of things, and not really CV. And the whole thing could be a big fat hoax. Why not prepare by commandeering 10 million hospital beds? Then you can say that it must be super bad above and beyond, even if less than 1% of the beds get filled. All those past vaccines; such a useless protection!



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