Hospital ships designated for the COVID-19 pandemic
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In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, navies from several countries deployed hospital ships to combat the disease. Aside from providing health services, hospital ships would allow civilian hospitals to offload some of the patients, relieving the pressure on facilities ashore.[1][2] However, this also means that each ship would battle the onboard outbreaks of their own [3]
As the infections have slowed or fallen short of worst-case predictions, the hospital ships became unused or barely used.[4]