Texas requests five mortuary trailers from FEMA, bracing for more covid-19 deaths
Source: Washington Post
Texas health officials have requested five mortuary trailers from the federal government in anticipation of a possible spike in deaths brought about by surging coronavirus numbers in the state.
The Texas Department of State Health Services made a request Aug. 4 through the Texas Division of Emergency Management to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for five mortuary trailers, agency spokesman Douglas Loveday confirmed to The Washington Post, adding the request was made as a precaution. NBC News previously reported the states request for mortuary trailers.
The trailers will be kept in San Antonio in case any nearby areas need the additional resource, though Loveday said no specific requests have been made. Still, officials are anticipating a potential need for these trailers in the state. Loveday said FEMA had also provided trailers for earlier increases in covid-19-related deaths.
Mobile and refrigerated mortuary trucks were seen as a grim symbol during earlier waves of the pandemic. Trailers were delivered to cities to keep pace with mounting deaths, and in some places they reportedly remained in place as makeshift morgues months into the pandemic.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/17/texas-mortuary-trailers-covid-surge/
keithbvadu2
(36,667 posts)Last year Abbot said TX had plenty of hospital beds.
Now his policies have different requirements.
Renew Deal
(81,847 posts)MyMission
(1,849 posts)Actually surprised they didn't order them sooner. They will be needed in many red states.
Vinca
(50,237 posts)Probably not knowing Abbott.
DBoon
(22,340 posts)Abbot is fine with someone deciding not to wear a mask and spreading a deadly disease to others. Along with owning guns, it's what freedom is all about.
onetexan
(13,020 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,728 posts)While the number of COVID cases and deaths rise. This makes no sense....
hibbing
(10,095 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,502 posts)they are going to need more than "5". And TX (along with AZ) went through that routine a year ago with the mortuary trucks, so they know the routine.
As of this past May, NY still had 750 bodies in those units and had received 85 of them during their peak wave a year ago, so it's no joke when it gets out of control.
Midnight Writer
(21,717 posts)marble falls
(57,013 posts)... doesn't help anyone.
Midnight Writer
(21,717 posts)Why are they going through the process of applying to the Federal Government?
Rent'em, buy'em, get it done. I suggest they buy some because they will no doubt need them again in the future.
marble falls
(57,013 posts)... big enough. The hospitals here are at capacity. They and other towns out here send bodies to bigger cities' morgues. There is a need. It is real. It will get worse as breakout infections start to rise. As the number of children with itstarts growing because there are kids going to school mainly unvaxxed, we'll need a lot more refrigerator trucks.
Like it or not, we are in this together. This is the time we all have to be the best we can be. We do not want to start reflecting them, now do we?
marble falls
(57,013 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)marble falls
(57,013 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)If they don't have power to keep the mortuary trailers cold, Texans will have to smell the stench of death.
ToxMarz
(2,162 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Will they need to requisition a backhoe and bulldozer for a mass-grave?
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)tonekat
(1,811 posts)Reserved just for him.
Ziggysmom
(3,394 posts)Grail. I know this situation isn't funny, but it popped into my head during my 4 AM insomnia.
Jimbo S
(2,958 posts)The Bond film.
"He built his mausoleum, now put him in it."
EndlessWire
(6,460 posts)This is just dreadful. What are we gonna do? What's the matter with these Republican Governors who defy common sense?
Botany
(70,447 posts)I wonder if there will be room for him on one of the trailers?
Crowman2009
(2,490 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,675 posts)America.