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With Morgues Brimming, Texas and Arizona Turn to Refrigerator Trucks

posted by martyb on Saturday July 18 2020, @12:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the R.I.P. dept.

Freeman writes:

With morgues brimming, Texas and Arizona turn to refrigerator trucks:

Officials in Texas and Arizona have requested refrigerated trucks to hold the dead as hospitals and morgues become overwhelmed by victims of the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

"In the hospital, there are only so many places to put bodies," Ken Davis, chief medical officer of Christus Santa Rosa Health System in the San Antonio area, said in a briefing this week. "We're out of space, and our funeral homes are out of space, and we need those beds. So, when someone dies, we need to quickly turn that bed over.

"It's a hard thing to talk about," Davis added. "People's loved ones are dying."

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by fustakrakich on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:29AM (4 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:29AM (#1023199) Journal

    Why not just institute mass-cremations?

    gotta keep 'em on ice for organ "donations"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:12AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:12AM (#1023221)

    Bad quality trolling and/or lame joke.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:43AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:43AM (#1023235)

      Lame response!

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Saturday July 18 2020, @06:01AM

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday July 18 2020, @06:01AM (#1023271) Journal

      Well, I'm sure we can find a more suitable alternative [montypython.net] for you

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    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:28AM

      by Bot (3902) on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:28AM (#1023294) Journal

      Don't they first explant organ and then stop the survival therapy? OT but curious.

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