The US military said it is working to convert buildings into hospitals and could potentially provide 10,000 beds for coronavirus patients in New York, according to an article on the CNN website.
The US Army Corps of Engineers is retrofitting hotels and dormitories into temporary hospitals.
The Corps has developed a standard design and contract in order to help facilitate the process.
"This is an unbelievably complicated problem and there is no way we're going to be able to do this with a complicated option -- we need something super simple," according to Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the head of the US Army Corps of Engineers.
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