Posted on 03/26/2020 3:05:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
As of this morning, New York reported over 33,000 cases of coronavirus, and 325 dead. The state, however, estimates that it is still two to three weeks away from suffering under the deluge of peak infection. Accordingly, the New York Times reports that the state has requested 85 refrigerated trailers from FEMA to house the anticipated number of bodies as a result of COVID-19.
New York City has additionally purchased 45 refrigerated truck trailers on its own, Bloomberg says, with each one being able to hold 44 bodies, respectively:
Michael Lanotte, executive director of the New York State Funeral Directors Association, said: “These units are essential to ensure that decedents are treated humanely while they await transfer to a funeral home.”
“It’s a whole new temporary world that we are all trying to navigate,” he said.
The city is sending a “Mass Fatality Management” plan to medical facilities, laying out technical specifications for the trailers, known as Body Collection Points. The trailers must be cooled to a temperature of 37 degrees, documents for their purchase show.
“The city’s five morgues have a capacity of 800 to 900,” the Bloomberg report added. At the upper bound, that would provide the city with a capacity of 1,980 additional bodies to be stored until burial.
The additional 85 trailers requested for the state would provide an additional capacity of 3,740 bodies.
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Good point.
150,000 people died in New York in 2015; that’s over 12,000 a month.
The virus has killed maybe 300 in New York in a month; so that would be 12,300 deaths in a month.
The city just can’t hand the additional deaths?
If they have universal DNRs, they may well need them.
True, just like Duncan's body in Texas (ebola victim). Maybe DeBlasio and Cuomo want to keep them around and piling up to leverage more federal funding.
If they're stacking up, no matter the reason, as a previous reply indicated, then no.
They may need the trucks anyway. If southern Louisiana is any indication, most of the people who end up on a ventilator from COVID-19 eventually pass away.
And after they are done, haul oranges from Florida or California?
NY has 1300 on ventilators. Once you get to that stage survival rate is ~ 50%. That rate has been went up 40% in just one day. They currently have about 12000 ventilators. So, yes they haven’t had a need to deploy all of them. But they will get there pretty quickly if this keeps up. When you don’t have ventilators left, the survival rate drops from 50% to 0. If they don’t hit a peak soon, the situation is going to get pretty bad. If you don’t fully understand what is going on, don’t parrot statistics without context.
I didn’t parrot any statistic.
I simply posted what was ACTUALLY being reported, on Tucker’s show/FoxNews.
Rude much?
Oh, and welcome to FR, n00b.
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