USNS Comfort / USNS Mercy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B4zfUOPUAo This big hospital ships are second only in size to super carriers. Rebuilt on huge oil tankers shell and chassis, this 1000 bed floating healthcare facilities has everything (that surface hospitals has) except birthing rooms, they have intensive care units and isolations units (according to US joint chief chairman, he said 50-60 isolation units on board but not included in specifications), they have operating rooms, blood banks, body banks (it said morgue in the specification, people normally call them ‘slice and dice rooms’, some call 'cutting rooms' simply), ~1,200 nurses and doctors, dentists. These ships seems to be designed and built mainly for war but not for such outbreaks
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