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Breaking|3 views|Nov 22, 2020,10:19am EST
Report: Hundreds Of Bodies Of NYC’s Spring Covid Victims Still In Freezer Trucks
Jemima McEvoyForbes Staff
More than half a year after New York City’s deadly coronavirus surge, hundreds of bodies are still being stored in freezer trucks on the Brooklyn waterfront, The Wall Street Journal first reported Sunday, a show of just how unprepared the country’s systems were for handling this deadly pandemic.
Per the report, about 650 bodies are still being stored in freezer trucks at a disaster morgue that was set up on a pier in Sunset Park in April.
According to New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner, many of the bodies are people who either couldn’t afford a proper burial or whose families couldn’t be located.
The Chief Medical Examiner’s office, which has 15 forensic-investigations staffers tasked with identifying bodies, was unprepared for the demands of the unprecedented and unexpected coronavirus pandemic, The Wall Street Journal found.
Equipped to handle 20 deaths a day, the number of deaths added to its caseload rose to around 200 per day during the height of New York City’s Covid-19 outbreak.
Due to the delays that resulted, some families found out “weeks or months after the fact that a loved one had died and was awaiting collection,” according to the WSJ.
Covid-19 also complicated tracking down family members, who the Medical Examiner’s office said on several occasions couldn’t be found because they themselves had also died from the virus...
Breaking|3 views|Nov 22, 2020,10:19am EST
Report: Hundreds Of Bodies Of NYC’s Spring Covid Victims Still In Freezer Trucks
Jemima McEvoyForbes Staff
More than half a year after New York City’s deadly coronavirus surge, hundreds of bodies are still being stored in freezer trucks on the Brooklyn waterfront, The Wall Street Journal first reported Sunday, a show of just how unprepared the country’s systems were for handling this deadly pandemic.
Per the report, about 650 bodies are still being stored in freezer trucks at a disaster morgue that was set up on a pier in Sunset Park in April.
According to New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner, many of the bodies are people who either couldn’t afford a proper burial or whose families couldn’t be located.
The Chief Medical Examiner’s office, which has 15 forensic-investigations staffers tasked with identifying bodies, was unprepared for the demands of the unprecedented and unexpected coronavirus pandemic, The Wall Street Journal found.
Equipped to handle 20 deaths a day, the number of deaths added to its caseload rose to around 200 per day during the height of New York City’s Covid-19 outbreak.
Due to the delays that resulted, some families found out “weeks or months after the fact that a loved one had died and was awaiting collection,” according to the WSJ.
Covid-19 also complicated tracking down family members, who the Medical Examiner’s office said on several occasions couldn’t be found because they themselves had also died from the virus...