NEW YORK -- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said after meeting with President Donald Trump that the USNS Comfort would be leaving, but testing capacity would be increased. The USNS Comfort has been docked ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – After returning in August from a 78-day humanitarian mission, the crew of the USNS Comfort was full of energy. Formerly an oil tanker before it was converted into a Mercy-class ...

Initially built as a San Clemente class tanker, the USNS COMFORT (T-AH 20) was converted into a hospital ship and commissioned as a U.S. Navy vessel in 1987. The COMFORT's primary mission is to ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The USNS Comfort hospital ship is expected to set sail for New York Saturday with a send-off from President Trump. U.S. Navy Reserve sailors arrived Wednesday on board the USNS ...

The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort will leave Norfolk on Friday to head to Puerto Rico to support relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The Military Sealift Command ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — President Donald Trump announced in a press conference Thursday that the USNS Comfort hospital ship is expected to depart Virginia on Saturday to provide aid to New York. The ...

NEW YORK -- The Navy hospital ship sent to relieve stress on New York City hospitals at the height the pandemic is discharging or transferring its last 12 patients this weekend as it nears the end of ...

The USNS Comfort hospital ship and an emergency hospital at the Javits Center are meant to be relief valves for hospitals in New York City, where more than 14,000 people have been hospitalized for ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The hospital ship USS Comfort will stop excluding patients who have the coronavirus, officials have announced. The Navy ship has sat largely empty off the west side of ...