Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6652433810296225792
Where will the #dead #bodies go? Send more #refrigerated #trailers…18-week wait… There are the new #dead. And then there are the bodies waiting in overcrowded mortuaries to be buried as cities struggle… Med Alliance Group, a medical distributor in IL, is besieged by calls & emails from cities around the country. Each asks the same thing: Send more #refrigerated #trailers so that we can handle a situation we never could have imagined… “They’re coming from all over: From #hospitals, #healthsystems, coroner’s offices, VA facilities, county and state health departments, state emergency departments and #funeral #homes… It’s heart-wrenching.” The company has rented all its trailers and there’s an 18-week wait for new materials to build more. With U.S. medical experts and even President Donald Trump now estimating the #death #toll from the #coronavirus #pandemic could reach 240,000 nationwide, the sheer #practicalities #of #death — #where #to #put #the #bodies — are worrying just about everyone as #cities, #hospitals and private medical groups clamor to secure #additional #storage… But, in general, few #morgues in the country can hold even 200 to 300 #bodies. Meanwhile, FEMA has asked the Defense Department for 100,000 #body #bags.
It’s a #crisis being repeated #worldwide.
