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.

The military is protecting the country while also protecting its members from contracting the coronavirus — NBC7’s military reporter Bridget Naso takes a look at that complex challenge.

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.