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

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: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:36AM (5 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:36AM (#1023204) Journal

    Make
    America
    Graveyard
    America

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by helel on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:04AM (1 child)

    by helel (2949) on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:04AM (#1023244)

    I feel like Make America Graveyard Again works better and it's not like there aren't a plethora of events, even plagues, that work for the callback.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:10PM (#1023403)

      Make America Graveyard Already works even better.

  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:01PM (2 children)

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:01PM (#1023422)

    MAKE
    ADDITIONAL
    GRAVES,
    AMERICA

    that works a bit better.

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