El Paso inmates help move bodies into morgues as Covid deaths soar

[UpInArms]

Source: The guardian

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The El Paso county public health department has confirmed more than 800 deaths since March. Another 400 are under investigation. El Paso has called in more mobile morgues in recent days, up from six to 10.

Authorities in El Paso fear a dire situation could get much worse. Facilities are overwhelmed: 1,100 people are hospitalized with Covid-19.

In an emotional, nearly hour-long video on Facebook, Lawanna Rivers, a nurse who came to Texas to help, described the dire situation.

“The only way that those patients was coming out of that pit was in a body bag,” she said, referring to the the Covid unit where she was working. “I am not OK from an emotional mental standpoint.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/22/el-paso-coronavirus-inmates-national-guard

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[My Pet Orangutan]

1. And locals voted Trump big time.

More worried about losing jobs, than losing lives.

[Scruffy1]

2. They did not.

El Paso is heavily Democratic. Nearly all of our local officials are Democrats and Biden won by about 2-1.

[Turin_C3PO]

4. No.

El Paso supported Biden big time. They’re reliably Democratic.

[iluvtennis]

3. It hurts my heart what El Paso is going through. I'm glad that the prisoners volunteered so

that the people who died could be removed from hospital with some dignity. The prisoners should be paid more than the pittance of $2 an hour -- that tells me the powers that be making 10 times as much.

Stay strong El Paso.