Texas orders extra body bags, mortuary trucks as it braces for more coronavirus deaths
Source: CNBC
Texas officials and funeral home directors are ordering extra body bags and refrigerated trucks as they prepare for an increase in deaths from Covid-19, which has already killed 3,657 in the state.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending 14 refrigerated trucks to the state next week on top of the eight already sent to serve as temporary mortuaries, while some funeral homes are reserving their own trucks from private companies.
The directors Ive talked to in the last week are at capacity or over capacity, thus the reason they had to bring in the trailers, said Gene Allen, president of the Texas Funeral Directors Association.
Travis County, where Austin is located, is in the process of procuring three extra mortuary trucks out of an abundance of caution, public
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/17/texas-officials-order-extra-body-bags-mortuary-trucks-as-state-braces-for-rising-coronavirus-deaths.html
erronis
(15,469 posts)to keep this pandemic going as long as possible.
Great gruesome business.
IronLionZion
(45,664 posts)it's a gruesome and dangerous job to deal with dead COVID bodies.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Too bad theyre not raging out of control like we are
IronLionZion
(45,664 posts)If only Texas was warm and sunny.
bucolic_frolic
(43,504 posts)for those who remember funeralgate from the Bushco years
cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)everyone knows who to point the finger at correctly.
torius
(1,652 posts)off the body bags?
murielm99
(30,785 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,044 posts)The Trump admin did/does not have enough PPE but they have no problem with temp morgues.
Champp
(2,114 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,169 posts)I went to the grocery this morning and was waiting to check out, carefully standing on the floor signs showing six feet of space. A woman pulled her cart directly behind me, clearly not keeping the needed distance and making sounds of irritation. She was wearing a mask because the store doesnt allow you in without one. I had turned to ask her to back up and stay six feet from me when a store employee walked over and sent her to a different lane. At least the grocery is taking the virus seriously if not all residents are. I just do not see an end to this. Too many people in too many states are now infected and passing the virus along.