New York saw glimmers of hope in its coronavirus fight Tuesday, despite announcing a record number of deaths as it prepares to treat COVID-19 patients in a cathedral and on a ship. Volunteers began turning Manhattan’s vast Cathedral of St. John the Divine into an emergency field hospital as Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed the navy’s USNS Comfort would now tend to coronavirus patients. Medical tents in wooden crates were brought into St John’s, which describes itself as the largest Gothic cathedral in the world and whose nave has been emptied of pews.
