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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:07AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:07AM (#1023216)

    But seriously, is it even true?

    Maybe. But the backlog is probably not due to "surging deaths! panic!", but on government action like holding the corpses for sample collection before they are allowed to be buried. With the death rate even lower now in the summer, cemeteries should have no problem handling the excess due to Covid.

    My local cemeteries are as quiet as ever.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:16AM (#1023225)

    My local cemeteries are as quiet as ever.

    You want them brimming with life and full of the cheerful noise of excavators and bulldozers?
    Organize a political convention, inside, were nobody is wearing a mask.

  • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:50AM

    by Opportunist (5545) on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:50AM (#1023304)

    If you local cemetery has free capacities, maybe report it to your regional authorities to spread the burden.

    Make
    Another
    Graveyard
    Available

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @06:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @06:07PM (#1023442)

    A 3,400 deaths deaths in Texas compared to about 190,000 regular deaths there in a year, are less than 2%.
    http://healthdata.dshs.texas.gov/dashboard/births-and-deaths/deaths-all-ages [texas.gov]
    Still the propaganda bots asplode all over the world.
    Useful for detecting the yet-unidentified ones, but non-event otherwise as the facts go.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @07:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @07:36PM (#1023462)

    A later post mentioned that the locality was banning funerals. Well, then, that would cause a backlog too. Fucking politicians.