People are over thinking this in an effort to excuse the actions of the hospital staff.
But, if they are as reported, there is no excuse.
The body must be secured and removed in a sanitary manner. A dead body is a host for any number of pathogens.
You have to do the after death paperwork.
If they did not there is something seriously wrong and you have to wonder how many other times bodies were tossed out sans any precautions because the staff just did not feel like doing their jobs.
If this is the way they run thing we might have part of an answer as to why we are getting weird outbreaks on the left coast.
I wonder what would have happened if they had been pulled over for speeding?
“Yes officer, that is our dead baby, here is the paperwork” as he hands him the doctor’s scribbles.
My BIL passed away in our home after months of my wife caring for him. He passed away on the commode next to his bed. She wanted to try to get him back in bed after he passed but I said lets just let the medics do that, and it was a struggle for them.
The police came as well, talked to my wife about medications he was taking (including morphine - it was his last days) and looked at her notes regarding doses and time of day taken.
I don’t recall a medical examiner at the house.
The funeral home (already arranged for) sent two people out and they were there within an hour or two of the police leaving to place him in a body bag and a nicer outer cover and then wheeled him out to their vehicle.
I have no idea how much that cost as that was all taken care of by my wife. I’m sure it wasn’t cheap but I can’t imagine any other alternative. I doubt it would have been legal to cremate him in the firepit in the backyard even if we had wanted to.
The funeral home gave us an official form for the cremation, and along with the death certificate my wife made me keep with the urn the entire time as we traveled by car across the country to his final resting place.