It can happen here

摘要

HAVING SAILED past the Statue of Liberty, the USNS Comfort docked at a pier on the west side of Manhattan. The spot where cruise ships once picked up passengers for the Caribbean now holds a naval hospital ship with the capacity to treat 1,000 patients-all to relieve the hospitals of New York City struggling with rampaging covid-19. Eager passers-by thronged to the shoreline to photograph the Comfort, briefly disregarding the advice to distance themselves from strangers.