OMG - just now on CNN the mayor of New Orleans said they're using the Convention Center

[csziggy]

As a hospital.

After the Katrina aftermath, doesn't that place have enough bad karma?

[hlthe2b]

1. That's what I've been thinking all along, but they don't have a lot of choices.

Too bad they let the old Charity Hospital fall into ruin.

[Talitha]

2. There's also talk of making part of Chicago's McCormick Place into a field hospital.