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The USNS Comfort’s last patient was discharged on Sunday, as the Navy hospital ship prepared to head home, officials said.
Roughly 184 people were treated aboard the 1,000-bed vessel since it docked off Manhattan’s West Side on March 30 to aid in the coronavirus pandemic, according to a spokesman for Northwell Health, which is providing operational assistance to the Comfort in New York.
The final 12 patients were being discharged or transferred this weekend, with the last one leaving Sunday.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the patient will be transferred to another medical facility or discharged altogether.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last week that the ship was no longer needed.
It is expected to return to its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, by the end of the month.



