Yesterday U.S. Senator Gary Peters, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and former Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve, toured a new field hospital at the TCF Center in Detroit and the Taylor Armory with Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy to discuss coordination on Coronavirus response efforts and to evaluate PPE decontamination equipment. While there is still work to be done in Michigan, Senator Peters is committed to ensuring its health care providers, hospitals, and patients are taken care of.
See more of Gary Peters’ tour of the facilities working to help Michigan:
WATCH: WDIV Detroit
The Detroit News: Army Secretary McCarthy, high-ranking officials tour Detroit’s TCF COVID-19 hospital
U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Joseph Martin toured the converted 970-bed facility alongside Sen. Gary Peters and Rep. Elissa Slotkin, Democrats who both sit on their chamber’s respective Armed Services committees.
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“We can’t deal with this crisis if we’re not dealing with it, united and bringing everybody together,” Peters said.
The Detroit Free Press: Top Army officials praise Whitmer, Duggan during tour of TCF field hospital in Detroit
Peters said that “there are still a lot of empty beds (and) I take that as a sign of success” for Michigan’s shelter-in-place policy.
On the way to Detroit from Metro Airport, the visitors from Washington stopped in Taylor to visit a Michigan Army National Guard arsenal. There they viewed an experimental mass sterilizer built this month by engineers at the Upper Peninsula’s Michigan Technological University in Houghton.
