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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: 2) by looorg on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:29AM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:29AM (#1023333)

    The thing about graveyards is that they probably didn't start out being "in the city", the city just eventually grew around them. They tend to start at the edge of towns and then the town eventually envelope the area around it.

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  • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Saturday July 18 2020, @01:42PM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 18 2020, @01:42PM (#1023362)

    Most graveyards in this neck of the woods are around churches.