Idaho morgues are running out of space for bodies as covid-19 deaths mount
Dave Salove has watched his morgue fill with bodies. Covid-19 victims have poured into the funeral home he runs in Boise, Idaho, in recent weeks, as the state contends with an unprecedented spike in deaths driven by the delta variant of the coronavirus. His 16-slot refrigeration room is over capacity. Other funeral homes have neared a tipping point, too.
Intent on avoiding the makeshift morgues that cropped up in the Northeast during the pandemic’s first wave, Salove this week brought in a refrigerated trailer to hold the growing number of dead. By Friday, there were seven corpses inside, up from two the day before. Six more were on their way from another facility.
“I’d barely gotten it installed, and we had to start using it,” Salove said. “Right now, we are seeing that spike.”
As covid-19 deaths reach record highs in the state of 1.8 million, hard-hit areas are struggling to keep pace with the surge in victims. Some hospitals, funeral homes and coroners say they’ve been pushed to the limit. Some morticians have even started embalming bodies that wouldn’t normally need the procedure so they don’t have to refrigerate them, the Idaho Statesman reported.
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We're in Pocatello and went to the outdoors farmers market this morning. My wife and I guess that 5-10% of the people were wearing masks, and that included us.
On top of that, they were forming groups of people, greeting friends and co-mingling everywhere we looked.
STUPID
