The outbreak initially spread only domestically, but as it gradually came under control at home, conditions arose abroad. The U.S. has now become the hardest-hit region of the epidemic, with more and more patients diagnosed with the new coronavirus, most seriously in New York, California and Washington state. The United States has long since announced a full-scale fight against the epidemic and relief efforts for states and regions with serious conditions, but the cruise ship that was supposed to be racing to Washington State suddenly turned around and docked in California. Many people thought the U.S. military had abandoned the patients there, but in fact it was just a desperate move.
1, the U.S. military abandoned the local patients
Because of the rapid spread of the epidemic, now the United States has also entered a state of emergency preparedness, in this case the U.S. military hospital ship is completely inadequate. One of them? USS Comfort? could not be dispatched, and the ? The Mercy? was ordered to go to the aid of Washington State. The state of Washington had a serious epidemic with many infected residents and was in dire need of medical personnel and relief supplies. But at a critical moment, the hospital ship suddenly turned around and ended up docking in Los Angeles, California. The new order received by the ship was to carry out a rescue mission to the city of Los Angeles in California, and Washington State was, in another way, equivalent to being abandoned.
2. A different kind of rescue
The U.S.S. ? USS Mercy? ship has a large number of medical personnel and rescue supplies, but the ship does not have perfect isolation measures, forcing to go to Washington State rescue, may lead to the phenomenon of cross-infection in the ship. In the current situation, medical personnel and supplies are absolutely the most precious, in order to prevent accidents, the U.S. military had to temporarily give up the rescue of Washington State. But this does not mean that the U.S. military has given up on Washington State. Now the U.S. military has made corresponding adjustments to most of the city and state where the epidemic is serious, to carry out other medical rescue.
3, the use of field hospitals in the form of rescue
Now the U.S. military began to use field hospitals in the form of rescue of other areas with serious epidemics, but the deployment of the field hospitals, it will take some time. For areas with serious epidemics, they can only wait until the field hospitals are deployed before they can get further help.