Rachel Maddow Said March 20th There Was No Sign Navy Hospital Ships Would Be On-Site For Weeks

Earlier we reported that the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort had arrived in New York City and three days ago, it was reported that USNS Mercy had arrived in LA. Last night it was reported that the Mercy started taking patients. The report says that it is going to be used for non-Coronavirus patients.

Today, it was also uncovered that MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had serious doubts about the ability to mobilize those ships as quickly as they did. She said, “there is no sign that the navy hospital ships that the president made such a big deal of that they’ll be anywhere on-site helping out anywhere in the country for weeks yet.”

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She continued by saying, “The president said when he announced those ships would be put into action against the COVID-19 epidemic. He said one of those ships would be operational in New York harbor next week. That’s nonsense. It will not be there next week.”

President Trump made the announcement on March 18th and the exact phrase he actually said was, “So those two ships are being prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so.”

It turns out NY Governor Cuomo is actually the one who made the claim about Trump and the ship by saying, “It will be in New York City Harbor. This will be, it’s an extraordinary step obviously, it’s literally a floating hospital which will add capacity, and the president said he would dispatch that immediately.”