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He said that when they last spoke, his daughter had seemed "detached" and told him how Covid-19 patients were dying before they could even be removed from ambulances. Dozens of patients have succumbed to coronavirus at the 200-bed hospital in Manhattan.
"She was truly in the trenches on the front line,'' her father told the New York Times.
"Make sure she's praised as a hero. She's a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died."
New York state has recorded almost a third of the country's nearly one million confirmed Covid-19 cases.
On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said random antibody tests indicated that a quarter of New York City (24.7%) - America's most populous city with 8.3 million people - had been infected with coronavirus.
Dozens of bodies have been found stored in moving lorries in New York, authorities say, after passersby complained of the smell.
The Andrew T Cleckley Funeral Home in Brooklyn had rented trucks and put about 50 corpses inside with ice.
One official quoted anonymously in the New York Times said the home's freezer had stopped working.
Police were called to the scene and sealed off the area. A refrigerated truck later arrived.
Workers in protective suits were later seen moving bodies.
They had dead bodies in the vans and trucks," the owner of the building next door told the New York Times . "They were on top of each other in body bags... all of [the vehicles] were packed."
Eric Adams, the Borough President of Brooklyn, went to the scene after the funeral home complaint emerged.
"While this situation is under investigation, we should not have what we have right now, with trucks lining the streets filled with bodies," he later told the New York Daily News.
Mr Adams said they were alerted by "people who walked by who saw some leakage and detected an odour coming from a truck."
By law, funeral directors must keep bodies in safe conditions that prevent infection before they are buried or cremated. The home has since been cited by health officials.
Dozens of bodies have been found stored in moving lorries in New York, authorities say, after passersby complained of the smell.
The Andrew T Cleckley Funeral Home in Brooklyn had rented trucks and put about 50 corpses inside with ice.
One official quoted anonymously in the New York Times said the home's freezer had stopped working.
While this situation is under investigation, we should not have what we have right now...
originally posted by: DictionaryOfExcuses
a reply to: DoctorBluechip
On the contrary, it sounds like bodies are adding up.
What a time for the corpse fridge to die.
Police were called to a Brooklyn neighborhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby complained about the smell, officials said.
The bodies were found inside vehicles parked on Utica Avenue in the Flatlands section on Wednesday afternoon. Video from SkyFOX showed several vans and box trucks backed up onto the sidewalk outside several storefronts, including Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Services.
originally posted by: DictionaryOfExcuses
a reply to: DoctorBluechip
On the contrary, it sounds like bodies are adding up.
What a time for the corpse fridge to die.
Back to my tell a vision now...
originally posted by: stosh64
a reply to: Illumimasontruth
Back to my tell a vision now...
Tell a vision, where you can select a 'Channel' to receive your 'Programming'.
Then there is this.
"Funeral Directors in COVID-19 Epicenter Doubt Legitimacy of Deaths Attributed to Pandemic"
In a 2018 book on propaganda and disinformation in U.S. politics, three Harvard University scholars refer to Project Veritas as a "right-wing disinformation outfit".[11]
originally posted by: butcherguy
U-haul truck full of covid victims bodies leaking fluid in the street.
If I was the manager of the U-haul Location that rented them the truck, I think I would call the funeral director up and tell him that he just bought himself a truck.
originally posted by: infolurker
Yeah, bodies are adding up. They are placing them in trucks.
Human remains found in U-Haul trucks outside Brooklyn funeral home