OK, so it turns out USNS Comfort has helped 75 people doing hospital-type stuff, after two hospitals lost emergency generators:
http://wtkr.com/2017/10/07/usns-comf...n-puerto-rico/
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Comfort has treated 75 patients ranging from six months to 89 years in age and performed numerous procedures such as gastrostomy tube placement, colectomies, sacral-decubitus ulcer debridement, as well as treated for wounds, hernias and pneumonia.
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And that's a job well done.
Helping these 75 people required...
Comfort is a seagoing medical treatment facility that currently has more than 800 personnel embarked for the Puerto Rico mission including Navy medical and support staff assembled from 22 commands, as well as over 70 civil service mariners.
She surely would have helped more people if she were there earlier; but, okay, that's a huge staff; and it turns out mobilizing 800 personnel from 22 commands takes a few days. and figuring out what you really need is hard as well.
Because in this case, as of what we know now, what was actually needed was two big-ass working emergency generators. And 2% of the fuel needed to get Comfort to P.R.
Millions upon millions have been spent to float this oil tanker to the islands with full medical staffs instead...
Ah hindsight!