Recalling New York at its worst, Officials in Texas and Arizona ordered additional refrigerated trucks and frame bags for their fast-filling morgues, a marker of how the coronavirus pandemic is uncontrollable in the southern and western states.
Texas funeral managers and managers, facing an average of 93 deaths per day, compared to 20 the previous month, began ordering more frame bags and refrigerated trucks this week as the state continued to achieve new infection records.
The federal emergency control firm said it would send 14 refrigerated trucks to Texas next week to the capacity of the state’s 8 existing trucks, provided in April.
Maricopa County, Arizona, home to the state’s largest city, Phoenix, also ordered 14 refrigerators to house up to 280 bodies to supply an overflowing morgue capacity if needed.
The outbreak of infections in the South and West has led hospitals in Texas, Arizona and Florida to close their capacity as hospitalizations and deaths continue to increase; South Florida also warned that it lacked remdesivir, one of the few drugs that was shown to be effective in Covid-19’s remedy.
These states are now looking increasingly similar to New York early on in the pandemic when dozens of giant mobile morgues could be seen scattered around the city to support an overwhelmed health system.
While New York was completely closed in April, its most affected country, Arizona and Florida do not yet have a warrant, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently announced a plan for schools to relearn face-to-face in the fall.
The number of new coronavirus infections that the United States recorded on Thursday, a new high after a series of records in recent weeks, with the number of new emerging instances of approximately 40,000 to just 80,000.
Arizona and Texas have filed requests for additional materials as a precautionary measure, and Texas Emergency Division spokesman Seth Christensen told CNBC that mortuary trucks are not yet desired. “We want to be at their best sense and ready in case we want to,” he said. Although deaths in Texas and Florida have not yet approached the more than 700 constants with the day recorded in New York State at the height of the epidemic, they have increased particularly in this constant period last month and epidemiologists warn that the number may also be delayed by the nature of the coronavirus, which can take time to cause hospitalization and death. Another thing might be that infections are basically a younger population, although public fitness officials warn that the virus is likely to spread soon to the elderly and vulnerable. New York remains the maximum state of the pandemic, with 25,353 deaths to date, although the virus is now under control and reopening is underway.
The Associated Press reported Friday that groups of army doctors have been sent to Texas and California to hospitals invaded by coronavirus patients. Eight California hospitals will get assistance from army doctors, nurses and other fitness specialists, while a medical center in Houston will be taken over by Army personnel.
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