For now, a repeat as severe as the spring appears unlikely, given improvements in care and the arrival of the vaccine, the medical examiner and hospital officials said recently. Bodies inside a truck freezer serving as a makeshift morgue at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, April 7, 2020. The medical examiner has distributed thousands of heavy-duty body bags. After the Sept. 11 attacks, the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner sifted rubble for human remains at the pier’s warehouses. On April 28, the city opened the long-term freezer storage facility at the Brooklyn pier, which can hold at least 1,500 bodies.

Source: bd News24 December 26, 2020 12:56 UTC