The 2020 North American International Auto Show has been completely cancelled for 2020, according to the , after the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it has chosen the venue for the event, TCF Center, to be used for at least the next six months as a makeshift hospital for COVID-19 victims during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Detroit has been one of the , along with , which has already seen the (host of the New York International Auto Show) converted into a 2,000 bed care facility for COVID-19 patients for the foreseeable future.

Javits currently looks like this:

A similar buildout is expected for TCF Center. The NAIAS was originally scheduled to take place from June 7th to 21st, but with the loss of the venue entirely, event planners opted to cancel for 2020 entirely and resume the show in 2021. , Doug North:

We fully support NAIAS organizers in their postponement. The health and safety of our community and those working throughout the industry is our top priority. We look forward to seeing the show’s return in 2021.

Michigan from the pandemic, with the largest one-day increase in confirmed cases coming yesterday, at over 1,000. Michigan’s first confirmed case was on March 10th. Yesterday, the state government declared a state of disaster caused by the pandemic, w.

With as the pandemic worsens, it would have been a bleak show, even if the United States even began to recover by then. Now, hopefully the space can be used usefully to help those ill as .