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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @06:17AM
It is a major metropolitan area on par with the NYC metropolitan area in population. And it only takes one to get a pandemic. The hospitals of Europe had operated for years without pandemics, until they didn't. People raised and interacted with camels for millennia in the Middle East without trouble, until they didn't. If you want to extend your thinking, obviously the Spanish Flu and MERS were engineered viruses that got loose somehow from the nearby medical research facilities in the major city of origin.