The US Coast Guard Vessel Tern was alongside the Grand Princess 2 hours agi

[FightingIrish]

It just docked at Yerba Buena Island. This may be the non-commercial port Pence was talking about. After its rendezvous with the ship, it returned at high speed to Yerba Buena.

[Mike 03]

1. About the Coast Guard facility on Yerba Buena Island

Today the military reservation southeast of the Yerba Buena Tunnel belongs to the United States Coast Guard (USCG) District Eleven. The US Coast Guard Sector San Francisco – Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) tower is located on Signal Road Bldg. 278 atop the peak of the island. The US Coast Guard Sector San Francisco Headquarters is co-located with US Coast Guard Station San Francisco on Healy Avenue @ Fresnel Way at water-level on the southeast coast of the island. The Coast Guard Aids to Navigation San Francisco has a navigational buoy repair facility on Fresnel Way. The USCG Senior Officers' residences are in Quarters A, B, C, 8 and 9 off of Hillcrest Road on the hill atop the USCG base. During the summer of 2011, the Department of Homeland Security - United States Coast Guard opened the new SAFE Port Act (2006) Interagency Operations Center (IOC at Bldg. 100 site on Spindrift Circle) on the US Coast Guard Sector / Station San Francisco base. The IOC houses the VTS, WatchKeeper and the US Coast Guard Sector San Francisco Command Center together in one building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_Buena_Island

[Baclava]

10. Yerba Beuna, now renamed Plague Island, better than SF, those poor people will never get home

[Pachamama]

2. I disagree- I don't think it can clear the Bay Bridge & they will be disembarked and transported

...elsewhere to a military base or former (Alameda Naval Station)?

[FightingIrish]

4. My theory is that the Tern was carrying passengers

and crew who had tested positive. The Grand Princess is still in a holding pattern outside US waters.

[Pachamama]

5. UCSF Parnasas was setting up at the hospital tents outside last night with negative air

Friend is a Physician there and was telling me they are preparing to take patients including from the Grand Princess

[NBachers]

7. Here's an excellent article on that from the San Jose Mercury News. They're setting up in the

Emergency Room parking lot.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/05/coronavirus-as-cases-climb-hospitals-brace-for-patient-surge/

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Very good, NBachers. Thanks for sharing it. ❤ nt

[Brother Buzz]

8. The Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge have the same clearence....

and depending on the tide, the Grand Princess has 20' to spare. Back in the day, big ass aircraft carriers routinely went underneath the bridges to get to Alameda. That is, after they dropped some sort of radio mast.

[Pachamama]

3. Maybe Angel Island will be used again after 140 years

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Island_(California)

[Brother Buzz]

6. Not unless the make some much needed repairs to the 1000-Man Barracks

[Pachamama]

9. Trump doesn't care...

But I could see them setting up hospital tents on the island

[Brother Buzz]

11. It's all state property now, except for the Coast Guard lights (three, I think)....

So the orange anus would have to make nice with Gavin Newsom, and we know that isn't gonna happen.

[Pachamama]

12. Correct - and CA has an emergency and our Governor

And Public Heath authorities have important decisions to make about where they can quarantine people and deal with especially if the crisis gets worse. Our assumption here in California is that Trump will do nothing for us to help us - only to hinder.

So I was referring to what CA can do with Angel Island.

[Brother Buzz]

14. I would think the logistics at Angel Island would be a royal pain in the ass

Certainly there are better suited places for this, like maybe fairgrounds; California owns a whole bunch of fairgrounds, and staging temporary facilities at a couple of them would be a snap compared to Angel Island.

[Pachamama]

15. Not necessarily - it's able to be contained and has a ferry terminal and helicopter landing pad.

Plenty of areas where temporary military style hospital tents could be set up and there. There are roads and working buildings there for the state park employees and a weather station.

[eleny]

13. A search for CG Tern provided this video of the vessel and some happenings

https://cbsloc.al/3at2e3E

Someone transferred from CG Tern to an ambulance. The ambulatory person, evidently accompanying the sick person, was escorted to the side of the ambulance so they could ride along.

[FightingIrish]

16. That makes it real.

[eleny]

18. I didn't see the name of the place where they took her.

The ambulance didn't have the name of a hospital, only it's oan company name.