FEMA is sending 85 refrigerated trucks to New York City to serve as temporary morgues
Source: AP via Marketwatch
NEW YORK (AP) It has become a grim ritual outside New York Citys hospitals: workers in protective gear loading the bodies of coronavirus victims into refrigerated trailers.
A surge in deaths in the epicenter of the crisis in the U.S. has overwhelmed the citys permanent morgues and filled storage spaces in many hospitals to capacity. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending 85 refrigerated trucks to serve as temporary morgues, the city said.
Its been that way for days at Brooklyn Hospital Center, where a worker Tuesday wheeled out a gurney carrying a body covered in white plastic, a forklift operator carefully raised a body into the trailer and undertakers came to claim the remains of yet another of the citys nearly 1,000 coronavirus dead.
The hospital said in a statement that the unprecedented crisis calls for extraordinary measures and that extra storage is needed to accommodate the tragic spike in deaths, placing a strain on the entire system of care from hospitals to funeral homes.
Grieving families cannot quickly make arrangements, and their loved ones who have passed are remaining in hospitals longer, thus the need for this accommodation, the hospital in Brooklyns Fort Greene neighborhood said.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fema-is-sending-85-refrigerated-trucks-to-new-york-city-to-serve-as-temporary-morgues-2020-04-01?mod=mw_latestnews
More ventilators should have been sent.
enough
(13,254 posts)equipment to save lives.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)per facility engineer I am close friends with in a hospital engineering dept.
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)Don has blood on his hands and a lot of it.
UpInArms
(51,279 posts)Of the ineptitude and corruption that infests the Republican Party and their failure to be anything even remotely good.
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)I hope this Country wakes the hell up!
Seeing those trucks makes me nauseous.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
at140
(6,110 posts)But I do not understand why a rich country like USA did not have 10,000 ventilators in stock in FEMA for all these years.
ck4829
(35,020 posts)Won't they be used?
Do they only exist when a Democrat is President?
keithbvadu2
(36,626 posts)Heckuvajob Brownie/Donald.
llashram
(6,265 posts)and the need for 85 refrigeration trucks to serve as morgues is directly tied to the incompetence of imPOTUS 45. I wonder after this disease has plateaued and started winding down if the numbers of deaths that could have been prevented, by the timely response in all areas of responsibility by imPOTUS 45 concerning the spread of this disease, will be noted?
Javaman
(62,493 posts)Gothmog
(144,845 posts)Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)But not PPE's.