(CNN) University of Nebraska Medical Center doctors aren't just providing top tier medical care to coronavirus patients, they're also supporting them as they battle the symptoms.

It's why Dr. Mark Rupp, UNMC's division of infectious diseases chief, told CNN Tuesday the hospital is providing patients with chicken soup and antipyretics, or anti-fever medicine like Tylenol or Motrin.

"They're in the chicken soup stage right now," Rupp said. "It's really just watching them and giving them supportive care that you would probably get at home from a loving provider."

The US Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness Response asked UNMC early Monday morning to take in a total of 13 patients who had either tested positive, or had a high likelihood of testing positive, for the novel coronavirus

The patients had been on a cruise ship docked off the cost of Japan for two weeks. The center said it was prepared.

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