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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) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:07AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:07AM (#1023245)

    From your link:

    Garry explained that much of the genetic material of the virus that caused COVID-19 is similar to that found in viruses sampled from animals, and was unknown to science until after the pandemic, ruling out the possibility the virus was created beforehand in a lab.

    The St. George's University of London PDF referenced further up actually cites the papers from Wuhan researchers working on those sequences. So Garry is wrong from the start.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:59AM (#1023270)

    This is a paper is basically by Immunor, which is developing their own vaccine and trying to use this sort of analysis to differentiate themselves.

    And the statement from Garry is correct because these sequences were found in viruses sampled from animals after the pandemic. The references of theirs that you reference are mostly papers about "gain in function" or zoonotic mutations that could occur in different viruses, and are not sequences or mutations that had already occurred.