<p>In a development that some public officials are calling a &#8220;good problem&#8221; — albeit an extremely costly one — many emergency field hospitals erected in order to provide additional care for a forecasted influx of coronavirus patients ended up going largely unused, while some never treated a single patient. Some of those hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of field hospitals are now being taken down or left on &#8220;standby&#8221; in case of a &#8220;second wave&#8221; of COVID-19. One of them, a Navy hospital ship, is preparing to pull up anchor and cruise away from Manhattan.</p>
<p class="Component-root-0-2-56 Component-p-0-2-48">&#8220;Gleaming new tent hospitals sit empty on two suburban New York college campuses, never having treated a single coronavirus patient,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/e593ba57f37206b495521503d7e5e4c5">The Associated Press</a> reported Wednesday. &#8220;Convention centers that were turned into temporary hospitals in other cities went mostly unused.&#8221;</p>
<p>So why all the abandoned emergency facilities? The number of virus infections have either slowed down or, in many areas, failed to come even close to the &#8220;worst-case predictions,&#8221; leaving the U.S. and other places around the world &#8220;dotted with dozens of barely used or unused field hospitals,&#8221; the new agency explains.</p>
<p>Many of those now superfluous facilities will remain in a &#8220;standby&#8221; status in case of a feared &#8220;second wave&#8221; of the virus, while others may be repurposed as additional testing centers if officials deem it necessary.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some public officials say [the largely unused facilities is] a good problem to have — despite spending potentially billions of dollars to erect the care centers — because it’s a sign the deadly disease was not nearly as cataclysmic as it might have been,&#8221; AP notes. Others, Donald Trump among them, have pushed back on the wastefulness of the demands of various governors based on models that ended up being far off in their forecasts.</p>
<p>One of the field hospitals, hurriedly built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the order of Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — who wanted at least four built — will officially close down on Friday after treating a little more than 1,000 patients.</p>
<p>The other three requested facilities were &#8220;completed and mothballed for possible future use, including ones on the campuses of Stony Brook University and the State University of New York College at Old Westbury on Long Island,&#8221; AP reports. At least two of those facilities cost over $100 million each, while another $100 million was spent on contracts for since-scrapped plans to build additional field hospitals.</p>
<p>The reason the $100+ million facilities were barely used, AP explains, is that the number of hospitalizations in connection to COVID-19 in New York &#8220;crested far below forecasts.&#8221; The forecasts predicted that 110,000 beds would be necessary. At the height of the outbreak, 18,825 beds, less than 20% of the predicted number, were needed.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s not just in New York: Detroit built a 1,000-bed facility that treated &#8220;about three dozen people,&#8221; Chicago built a 500-bed, $64 million facility that has treated just 12 people, Philadelphia built a 200-bed hospital that has &#8220;never had more than six patients at a time.&#8221;</p>
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