US Army Deploys Field Hospitals to Help Battle COVID-19

U.S. Army National Guard members look on as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces plans to convert a conference center into a field hospital in New York City on March 23, 2020. Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images

The U.S. Army announced that three of its expeditionary hospital facilities have received deployment orders and will be heading to New York and Washington state to assist with COVID-19 response efforts.

The U.S. Army Public Affairs division said in a statement on March 24 that the 531st Hospital from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the 627th Hospital from Fort Carson, Colorado, and the 9th Hospital from Fort Hood, Texas, would deploy.