Don't know about the situation in your part of the country at that point in time.
Here in NY, the Feds set up 4 hospitals in the New York City area, two in NYC, one on Long Island and one in Westchester plus a navy hospital ship.
The Cuomo administration decided not to use them. Granted they were intially purposed for short term care, they could have easily been repurposed for long term care. Instead they put them into the nursing homes. If you have been in nursing homes here you could have easily predicted the results.