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New York to get hospital ship for coronavirus fight: governor

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces an "extraordinary step" amid the coronavirus outbreak: the dispatch of the US Comfort, a hospital ship that with some 1,000 rooms aboard for COVID-19 patients, to New York City Harbor. SOUNDBITE

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