Representatives of the Missouri National Guard and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers visited Columbia last week to consider whether the Hearnes Center or Mizzou Arena could be transformed into an emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients. So far, the project is just in the planning stages. But if the coronavirus pandemic fills the approximately 1,200 beds in Columbia's four hospitals, either or both buildings could end up looking like the Javits Convention Center in New York, which has been turned into a 3,000-bed hospital by the Corps of Engineers...
