McLennan County secures refrigerated truck as potential COVID-19 mobile morgue
https://wacotrib.com/news/local/mclennan...c3f5ab8794c94b7
Rhiannon Saegert

Local officials have secured a refrigerated truck with space for 40 on standby in case COVID-19 deaths overwhelm local mortuaries, Waco Mayor Dillon Meek said Wednesday.

The news came at a weekly press conference Wednesday in which local officials reported five new COVID-19-related deaths in McLennan County, bringing the death toll among McLennan County residents to 203.

Meek said it is up to residents to follow COVID-19 guidelines and follow doctors’ advice to “protect” hospital capacity. He said the Waco-McLennan County Office of Emergency Management has preemptively acquired a refrigerated truck from the advisory council of Trauma Service Area M to serve as a temporarily mobile morgue because of the increase in hospitalizations in the area.

“Currently, local mortuaries and funeral homes have the capability to meet demand, but it’s important to have a trailer like this before it’s absolutely needed,” Meek said.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Despicable.

Good grief....

Quote: Magwitch wrote in post #4

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The article makes no reference to daily deaths. Obviously, no death is trivial. That said, digging through Worldometers to data from that county - a Twitter page! - it appears that the average daily death rate is on the order of two a day (some days are zero, yesterday was 5). I doubt that kind of Covid death rate will overwhelm the county morgue. This move looks like alarmist grandstanding.

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