Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn announced on Wednesday that she would like to have the 1,000-bed USNS Mercy back to help address the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. Hahn announced Wednesday that she has asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to work to bring the hospital ship back to Los Angeles County and call in the National Guard’s medical units, citing exhausted healthcare workers and overwhelmed hospitals. “They need backup,” Hahn wrote in a letter to the governor. “This surge is the crisis that we dreaded all along. We need as much support as we can get for our healthcare workers, and we need the USNS Mercy back in the Port of Los Angeles.” President Donald Trump, at the request of Newsom, deployed the Mercy to Los Angeles for additional capacity to relieve pressure on hospitals as the city fought against the CCP virus outbreak. While its sister ship USNS Comfort …