//Central Park becomes a field hospital for New York, where coronavirus deaths have topped 1,000

Central Park becomes a field hospital for New York, where coronavirus deaths have topped 1,000

A grassy meadow in New York’s Central Park normally occupied by sunbathers and picnickers is now an emergency field hospital as officials scramble to support a hospital system getting overwhelmed by coronavirus.The 68-bed field hospital in the park’s East Meadow along the Upper East Side is designed as a respiratory care unit.Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian humanitarian aid organization, set up the tents in cooperation with