USNS Mercy

The San Diego-based hospital ship USNS Mercy began the trip back to its homeport Friday following nearly two months in Los Angeles, where it served as a relief valve while Southland medical centers coped with the burgeoning coronavirus pandemic.

NBC 7’s Dave Summers has a recap of the ship’s mission in Los Angeles.

The Navy hospital ship is scheduled to return to San Diego after providing support to Los Angeles’ health care system.

Two crewmembers who tested positive for COVID-19 had limited contact with patients on the hospital ship USNS Mercy, Navy officials confirmed to NBC 7 Wednesday.

Two USNS crew members with COVID-19 had limited contact with patients on the hospital ship.

The Navy has removed 116 medical staff members from its hospital ship docked off Los Angeles after seven of them tested positive for COVID-19

There are two San Diego-based ships dealing with multiple cases of COVID-19. NBC 7’s military reporter Bridget Naso has more.

While they have two very different missions, two San Diego-based U.S. Navy ships are both battling multiple cases of COVID-19.

A medical treatment facility crewmember aboard the San Diego-based USNS Mercy has tested positive for COVID-19, according to Navy Public Affairs Officer Lt. Joseph Pfaff.

Many of the one thousand members of the U.S. Navy medical team and civil service mariners serving on the USNS Mercy — the hospital ship in the Port of Los Angeles helping hospitals there cope with the growing number of COVID-19 cases — are from San Diego. Among them is Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Billie Soloman from the Tierrasanta area….

The Department of Defense released footage from inside the USNS Mercy, the Navy hospital ship docked in Los Angeles to help during the coronavirus pandemic.

Deployed San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is now pier side in Guam after at least two dozen sailors have tested positive for COVID-19 and it is not the only U.S. Navy ship with coronavirus cases.

President Trump agreed Sunday to send a San Diego-based Navy hospital ship to Los Angeles to deal with the area’s surge of coronavirus patients.

The USNS Mercy has departed San Diego to assist hospitals in Los Angeles strained from the coronavirus outbreak. NBC 7’s Bridget Naso reports.

USNS Mercy is set to deploy to Los Angeles to help relieve the demand of hospitals onshore.

USNS Mercy — one of the Navy’s two 1,000-bed hospital ships — will depart from Naval Station San Diego to Los Angeles.

Two Navy hospital ships, one homeported in San Diego, California and the other in Norfolk, Virginia, will be sent to help hospitals in need of extra beds amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Trump said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump announced two naval hospital ships would be mobilized to help battle the coronavirus pandemic.