.TomLlamasABC reports from inside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, the country's largest Gothic cathedral, where a temporary field hospital is being set up as the novel coronavirus hammers the city's health care system.
Doctors and nurses are still working to help patients with coronavirus in hard hit areas as the rate of hospitalizations in New York dropped but dealt with its highest day in fatalities.
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, the country's largest gothic cathedral, will be turned into a temporary field hospital as the novelTents will be erected in the 600-foot-long nave and in the crypt. To start, there will be 50 hospital beds, but that could expand to 200, according to Samaritan's Purse, an evangelical Christian organization that helped erect the Central Park field hospital.
"In the history and tradition of the Church, and following the example of Jesus, Cathedrals have long served as places of refuge and healing in times of plague and community crisis," the Right Rev. Clifton Daniel III, dean of the cathedral, said in a statement."The Cathedral of St.
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