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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: 2) by c0lo on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:42PM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:42PM (#1023378) Journal

    You might want to start learning.

    I learned English, one language with illogical spelling/pronunciation is enough for my lifetime.
    Add tonality on top of the zillions of ideograms to memorize and... nah... simply it's not gonna happen.

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:54PM (3 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:54PM (#1023381)

    I speak 'murican. I'm trying to learn Inglisch.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by kazzie on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:36PM (2 children)

      by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:36PM (#1023428)

      My father-in-law proudly claims to speak three languages: English, Rubbish and Gibberish

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:14PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:14PM (#1023470)

        So, he is easily convesant with all the major languages spoken by Republicans then?

      • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:58AM

        by RS3 (6367) on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:58AM (#1023628)

        Kind of redundant as far as I can tell. :)