District Links: DC opens 437-bed site at convention center, to use if necessary; Metro unlikely to resume full service until 2021; and more

By Chris Kain and Cuneyt Dil On May 11, 2020 Last updated May 11, 2020

Happy Monday. As part of DC’s preparations for a projected surge in COVID-19 infections later this month, Mayor Muriel Bowser today unveiled the 437-bed “alternative care site” in Hall A of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

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