Virus: Inslee sending back DOD field hospital
In this April 5, 2020 photo, soldiers work at a nursing station in the intensive care section of a military field at the CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Wednesday, April 8, 2020, that the field hospital will be returned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency so it can be deployed to another state facing more of a crisis from the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Virus: Inslee sending back DOD field hospital
Updated 6:59 am PDT, Thursday, April 9, 2020
In this April 5, 2020 photo, soldiers work at a nursing station in the intensive care section of a military field at the CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Wednesday, April 8, 2020, that the field hospital will be returned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency so it can be deployed to another state facing more of a crisis from the outbreak of the coronavirus. Photo: Ted S. Warren, AP / Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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In this April 5, 2020 photo, soldiers work at a nursing station in the intensive care section of a military field at the CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Wednesday, April 8, 2020, that the field hospital will be returned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency so it can be deployed to another state facing more of a crisis from the outbreak of the coronavirus.
SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee said Wednesday a Department of Defense field hospital that had been set up by the football field where the Seattle Seahawks play due to the coronavirus outbreak will be returned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency so it can be deployed to another state facing more of a crisis.
Late last month Inslee announced 300 hundred soldiers from the 627th Army Hospital at Fort Carson, Colorado, had deployed to Seattle to staff the hospital along with soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The facility was expected to create at least 250 hospital beds for non-COVID-19 cases. The facility was located at Century Link Field Event Center just south of downtown Seattle.
Inslee said the decision to send the field hospital elsewhere was made after consulting with local, state and federal leaders. The Seattle area saw the country’s first coronavirus outbreak, and so far there are more than 9,000 confirmed cases and nearly 421 deaths in Washington. But Inslee and others have said they now don’t expect the state’s hospitals to be overwhelmed.
“Don’t let this decision give you the impression that we are out of the woods. We have to keep our guard up and continue to stay home unless conducting essential activities to keep everyone healthy,” Inslee said in a statement. “We requested this resource before our physical distancing strategies were fully implemented and we had considerable concerns that our hospitals would be overloaded."
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