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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe US Coast Guard Vessel Tern was alongside the Grand Princess 2 hours agi
It just docked at Yerba Buena Island. This may be the non-commercial port Pence was talking about. After its rendezvous with the ship, it returned at high speed to Yerba Buena.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_Buena_Island
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)...elsewhere to a military base or former (Alameda Naval Station)?
FightingIrish
(2,716 posts)and crew who had tested positive. The Grand Princess is still in a holding pattern outside US waters.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Friend is a Physician there and was telling me they are preparing to take patients including from the Grand Princess
NBachers
(17,135 posts)Emergency Room parking lot.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/05/coronavirus-as-cases-climb-hospitals-brace-for-patient-surge/
littlemissmartypants
(22,740 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)and depending on the tide, the Grand Princess has 20' to spare. Back in the day, big ass aircraft carriers routinely went underneath the bridges to get to Alameda. That is, after they dropped some sort of radio mast.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)But I could see them setting up hospital tents on the island
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)So the orange anus would have to make nice with Gavin Newsom, and we know that isn't gonna happen.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)And Public Heath authorities have important decisions to make about where they can quarantine people and deal with especially if the crisis gets worse. Our assumption here in California is that Trump will do nothing for us to help us - only to hinder.
So I was referring to what CA can do with Angel Island.
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)Certainly there are better suited places for this, like maybe fairgrounds; California owns a whole bunch of fairgrounds, and staging temporary facilities at a couple of them would be a snap compared to Angel Island.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Plenty of areas where temporary military style hospital tents could be set up and there. There are roads and working buildings there for the state park employees and a weather station.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Someone transferred from CG Tern to an ambulance. The ambulatory person, evidently accompanying the sick person, was escorted to the side of the ambulance so they could ride along.
FightingIrish
(2,716 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)The ambulance didn't have the name of a hospital, only it's oan company name.