A body wrapped in plastic is prepared to be loaded onto a refrigerated container truck used as a temporary morgue by medical workers due to COVID-19 concerns, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at Brooklyn Hospital Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
“They’re coming from all over: From hospitals, health systems, coroner’s offices, VA facilities, county and state health departments, state emergency departments andThe company has rented all its trailers and there’s an 18-week wait for new materials to build more, she said. In the U.S. epicenter of New York City, where the death toll was nearly 1,900 on Saturday, authorities brought in refrigerated trucks to store bodies. At Brooklyn Hospital Center, a worker wheeled out a body covered in white plastic on a gurney and a forklift operator carefully raised it into a refrigerated trailer.It’s hard to say exactly how much morgue space is available nationwide.
“They’re not made for surge. They’re made to handle the daily numbers,” said Jensen, whose company has helped with mass fatality incidents from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina to the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, all of which involved using refrigerated trucks to store bodies. “This isn’t because we expect a large influx of people succumbing to the illness, but rather it’s likely that there will be fewer funerals, which will cause backups in both our city morgues as well as the hospital morgues,” Abernathy said.
“We’re Italian so it would have been a lot of people. ... It would have been big,” he said, adding they would have hosted a meal in her honor, something they now hope to do at a later date. “She would have wanted everyone to have been well-fed.”
There is so much land where we all can go and see what this pandemic coused, it can be called the covidland of hope.
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As of today, 22,713 people were tested for covid-19 in Manhattan NY. That's about 0.25% of its total population. How are we seriously not looking at the data? If we tested the majority of Manhattan, I wouldn't be surprised to see at least 800,000 positive cases...
Ice rinks
There is a lot full of new refer trailers off of Hwy 370 in St Charles MO
Things we don’t like to think of, but are very real problems. China order mass cremations....
AP pushing panic, again.
THAT'S FLAT OUT BS! The numbers and the timeline don't matchup.
could.... should..... may...... borrowed from the global warmning crew.
Fear mongering at it's finest. I hope you all die from it.
Travis County Tx on lockdown 2 full week and counting. A county of 1.4m people. Infection of .0003% and death .000003%. Unemployment rampant. Food banks empty. Education canceled. Loss of all our Constitutional rights due to a incorrectly modeled pandemic and China’s lies.
This is poor reporting. What ever happened to cover ups? Like the way that they don't report that more people die everyday from violence, heart disease, etc. Stupid media!
CDC says 12K to 60K annual US deaths from flu. That's w/o lock-downs, social distancing and other protective measures. If deaths from corvid-19 can be held to 60,000 by such measures, we'll be very lucky.
How about becoming some beautiful peas. Cremation will be bad for the environment.
Hysteria at it's best.
Mass graves on the White House lawn
Empty hospitals in NY
The current numbers don’t support this. This is media guiding fear and panic. Don’t buy this shit. Do the math
They will incinerate to destroy evidence.
This is the first war (Corona)Americans are fighting on their own soil.They always fight wars on others soil.They are always in fear for loosing their own men.After few months lot many things will change in this world.
Total lie
This is going to be sweet. I'll just die at 36 and never have to suffer in my old age
Into mass graves. When has any plague not led to mass graves?
Fear mongering- pure and simple!
These numbers are over inflated.
In a vacant location similar to Arlington?
Use SpeakerPelosi office and the House, everyone is gone, they should be in session helping with the Chinese Virus
They could use the Trump hotels. They're mostly empty. Of course that would dishonor his victims.
lauferlaw 估计是不准确，最多也是3万左右。
Bull crap!!! WHERE ARE ALL OF THESE SICK PEOPLE? Why arent the hospitals over run? Where are the obituaries? Why arent the funeral homes over run? This is smoke and mirrors with a much greater hidden agenda.
Composting? That’s the way I want to go.
So, forget about tests, forget the needed equipment, let's get some storage for all the TrumpPlague victims.
TrumpMustGoNow TrumpResignNow TrumpLiesAmericansDie TrumpVirus TrumpPandemic
Dump the corpses on the WhiteHouse lawn or in the lobby of FoxNews. Problem solved.
What about offering free cremations? Then services can be held when this is over.
CRUISE SHIPS! There are two huge white ships docked on the East and West coasts, under the guise of Hospitals for the healthy, BUT, really there to house the dead. Trump inadvertently implied this in his ominous talk. This move is from Trump's PLAYbook, Page 45 MOVIESNOWPIERCER
The Trump administration can tell us that they purchased 100k body bags, but couldn't tell us how many: Ventilators they have on hand , ordered, requested by states, shipped to states (and when). Same for PPE (mask, face shields, gowns, gloves, etc). And what about the test kits
Ice rinks. They did it in Spain.
240k is now the go to figure. It was previously between 100k and 200k . I'm guessing this could soon change again or will they stop counting after 200k.
*o* SHOCKING *o*
The WhiteHouse might be an appropriate place to store bodies.
Throughout human history in times of war or plague, bodies were burnt. Kinda seems like a no-brainer to follow suit if you ask me.
This reads like a plot from a movie. Surreal.
This is going to help the pensions economic problem and Medicare.... Less people to care
FakeNews FakePandemic
Going to need a lot of refrigerated trucks... White House lawn has planty of parking space though.
Well are no where near those numbers. Faucis graph sucks.
There is NO model that shows 240,000 deaths. IN fact the model is skewed higher only because of New York. Thankfully most states are flat lines. And yet WHINER Coumo gets the airtime giving us his thoughts. Confine him to NY media. Lets hear from Governors doing things that work.
Like Trump said, the states failed to be ready for this. And he's wicked smaht. Just ask him.
Restricting travel from China was a good decision because it bought time Problem is trump squandered that time by minimizing the threat rather than mobilizing the nation South Korea did well because their president took the threat seriously Trump golfed
um. either pits or ovens.
I mean...damn. We're sitting here having to think on the logistics of what to do with the bodies. If that doesn't keep people in their house, nothing will.
You misspelled TrumpPandemic
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