LA Times: Spiraling COVID-19 deaths leave morgues overflowing
Source: LA Times
Spiraling COVID-19 deaths leave morgues overflowing and funeral homes turning away grieving families
A months-long surge of coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County is reaching its grim if inevitable zenith as deaths reach once-unthinkable levels, medical infrastructure is buckling under a flood of patients and officials fear the mortality numbers will only worsen in the coming weeks.
The county recorded an average of 151 people dying from COVID-19 each day in the past week a figure thats almost as high as the average number of people dying daily from every other cause, about 170 a day. But more recently, those numbers have spiked considerably.
Single-day COVID-19 death records have been broken every day for the last three days of the year, with 242 deaths reported Tuesday, 262 on Wednesday and 291 on New Years Eve.
The sheer number of fatalities is causing more challenges to already overwhelmed hospitals and other institutions. Many hospital morgues are now filled with bodies, and officials are trying to move them for temporary storage at the county medical examiner-coroners office.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-01/la-me-covid-19-death-toll-morgue-funeral-homes
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)and release a bunch of radiation anytime soon.
Otherwise, we know what comes next ...
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)Kind of like Robert E. Lee's land at Arlington was seized to make Arlington National Cemetery.