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https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-morgue-relief-orange-20210827-ljpu6e3lhneshfk42cyivkbnam-story.htmlFourteen portable refrigerated morgues are headed to Central Florida to help beleaguered hospitals store bodies, officials said Friday.
The number of deaths right now is unprecedented, said Lynne Drawdy, executive director of the Central Florida Disaster Medical Coalition, who ordered the units for health systems here. What were hearing from the hospitals is that the death count right now is higher than it ever has been.
Although she could not say how many of the deaths are due to COVID-19, she said COVID-19 is unquestionably the precipitating event.
Florida is now reporting an average of 227 COVID-19 deaths a day a state record and by far the highest count in the nation.
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14 portable morgues on way to Central Florida: 'Number of deaths right now is unprecedented' (Original Post)
steve2470
Aug 2021
OP
FL is either lying or they have just beaten this latest spike in cases (their highest
BigmanPigman
Aug 2021
#5
CanonRay
(14,770 posts)1. Yesterday's Worldometers deat count for Fl
was 8. WTF?
BigmanPigman
(52,147 posts)5. FL is either lying or they have just beaten this latest spike in cases (their highest
rate yet) according to Worldometers.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/
Dreampuff
(778 posts)7. Exactly what I was thinking.
The death count they report to worldometer is often in the single digits and it just doesn't add up when you look at the death count in the other states.
appalachiablue
(42,750 posts)2. What a nightmare, tragedy
spinbaby
(15,189 posts)3. I have a friend working in one of those hospitals
She tells me the morgues are officially called Covid Resources.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,845 posts)6. How about "DeSantis Depositories"? nt
sheshe2
(86,957 posts)4. Only 14?
As always Florida miscounts.