The hospital ship USNS Comfort is anchored off the coast of Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis as it prepares for a six-day medical mission, Oct. 3, 2019.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is sending a floating hospital to help the state manage an onslaught of coronavirus cases expected to surge in the next 45 days.

"Right now, in New York specifically, the rate of the curve suggests that in 45 days we could have up to an input of people who need 110,000 beds that compares to our current capacity of 53,000 beds, 37,000 ICU units, ventilators, which compares to a capacity currently of 3,000 ventilators. That's our main issue," Cuomo said at a press conference in Albany.

As of Wednesday morning, the number of people infected with the coronavirus in New York state nearly doubled to more than 2,300, Cuomo said. Of those cases, nearly 23% are hospitalized.

Cuomo doubled the number of projected hospital beds and revised the hospitalization rate from his estimates on Tuesday, when he said the state needed 55,000 hospital beds for COVID-19 patients and said the hospitalization rate was 19%.

The hospitalization rate of coronavirus cases in the state is significantly higher than the global average of 10%. Though Cuomo didn't provide an estimate of total projected cases in New York, the numbers are staggering if new infections follow the current hospitalization rate. At 23%, coronavirsus cases across the state would exceed 500,000 by early or mid-May to get to the 110,000 hospitalizations projected by state officials.