12 US COVID Field Hospitals Constructed at $532 Million Are Standing Down Having Treated 82 Patients

That works out to $6.5 million per patient

The US allocated and spent $660 million for the US Army Corps of Engineers to build (largely through private contractors) 17 field hospitals for the prophesied surge in Covid-19 patients.

Of these four never opened. Of the 13 completed 9 have yet to treat a single patient, while the other four have treated 6, 37, 39 and 1095 patients respectively.

Excluding the hospital improvised in New York’s Javits Center which has a capacity for 1900 patents but treated 1095, the other 12 completed hospitals treated 82 patients combined. Many have now closed.

Yeah, this is just like the BLACK DEATH.

NPR:

FACILITY NAME	LOCATION	CONTRACTOR	TOTAL COST	MAXIMUM BEDS UNDER CONTRACT*	TOTAL PATIENTS
SUNY Stony Brook	Stony Brook, N.Y.	Turner Construction Co.	$155,500,000	1,038	0
SUNY Old Westbury	Old Westbury, N.Y.	AECOM Technical Services Inc.	$118,504,737	1,022	0
McCormick Place	Chicago	Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority	$65,526,533	3,000	37
Westchester County Center	White Plains, N.Y.	Haugland Energy Group LLC	$46,971,895	100	0
Colorado Convention Center	Denver	ECC Environmental LLC	$34,609,792	2,000	0
Walter Washington Convention Center	Washington, D.C.	Hensel Phelps Construction Co.	$31,793,893	443	Not yet complete
Commercial Appeal Building	Memphis, Tenn.	AECOM Technical Services Inc.	$26,134,527	40	Not yet complete
Miami Beach Convention Center	Miami Beach, Fla.	The Robins & Morton Group	$25,925,692	450	0
Sherman Hospital	Elgin, Ill.	Turner Construction Co.	$18,255,251	283	0
Westlake Hospital	Melrose Park, Ill.	Bulley & Andrews	$16,391,366	314	0
MetroSouth Medical Center	Blue Island, Ill.	Clark Construction Group LLC	$14,989,955	350	0
Wisconsin State Fair Expo Center	West Allis, Wis.	Gilbane Inc.	$14,912,326	530	0
The Ranch Events Complex	Loveland, Colo.	AECOM Technical Services Inc.	$13,331,415	1,007	Not yet complete
Suburban Collection Showplace	Novi, Mich.	Gilbane Federal	$11,754,262	1,100	6
Javits Center	New York City	New York Convention Center Operating Corporation	$11,364,953	1,900	1,095
East Orange General Hospital	East Orange, N.J.	Cutting Edge Group LLC	$10,993,404	250	Not yet complete
TCF Center	Detroit	Gilbane Inc.	$9,452,813	1,000	39

“All those field hospitals and available beds sit empty today,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said last month. “And that’s a very, very good thing.”

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, said: “These 1,000-bed alternate care sites are not necessary; they’re not filled. Thank God.”

Senior military leaders also said the effort was a success — even if the beds sit empty. Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked at a news conference if it bothered him to see the field hospitals go unused.

“For gosh sakes, no,” Hyten said. “If you see beds full, that means the local capacity of the local hospitals to handle this [has] been overwhelmed. And now we’re into an emergency situation.”

The Army Corps started building more than 30 field hospitals, retrofitting convention centers and erecting climate-controlled tents, in mid-March. Agency officials pushed to get these facilities done fast — limiting the bidding process and often negotiating directly with contractors they knew could deliver on time.

“I tell our guys, you have three weeks,” Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, said at a Pentagon news briefing in March. “You get as much as you can [get] done in three weeks. And then the mission is complete. We have a narrow window of opportunity. If we don’t leverage that window of opportunity, we’re gonna miss it.”