With October NAB, AES Events Looming, Cuomo Seeks to Keep Javits as Army Hospital
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) asked President Donald Trump Monday to keep the Javits Convention Center open as a 2,500-bed COVID-19 Army field hospital through the fall flu season, Cuomo told his daily coronavirus briefing. Javits was one of…
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four temporary facilities the Army Corps of Engineers built at the height of the crisis in the New York City area to reduce the strain on hospitals. “We’re now talking about the possibility of a second wave of the COVID virus or COVID combining with the regular flu season in September, which could be problematic again for the hospital capacity,” said Cuomo. “So the facilities we built, I spoke to the president about leaving them in place until we get through the flu season." Javits “we have to think about,” acknowledged Cuomo. "You can’t reopen the convention center, obviously, with the hospital beds in it." Javits is scheduled to host NAB Show New York Oct. 21-22 and the Audio Engineering Society convention Oct. 21-24. Neither NAB nor AES commented Monday. NAB already lost this month's Las Vegas show to COVID-19 (see 2003110036). AES put out an appeal Friday for $500,000 in funding by June 1 to keep it afloat amid multiple cancellations of sponsored events on which it relies for financial support (see 2004230055).