Week 2/21

 I feel like I set my heart on researching the handling of death morbidity during a pandemic. I would like to know how death is handle during an pandemic. With the demand on the mortuary and morgue because of the pandemic bodies where being stored in insulated trucks until they could figure out how families wanted to dispose of their loved ones. Texas was a state that was said to have been hit the hardest with trucks lined up of deceased bodies outside of a local hospitals, it was unclear as to how and when the bodies would be taken care of. Loved ones where lost when they where told the best option would be to cremate their loved ones and hospitals feared scrutiny over their proposal of how to deal with the aftermath. And it is not just Covid but other global epidemics like Ebola, where the body count is more than proposed . So how are the bodies preserved and what options do scientist have while waiting for the families to process or for a spot to open in the morgue. You also have non microbial pandemics due to environmental change like Katrina. Below is an article showing the death rate in NY during covid. 

“In the first six weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, the death toll surpassed that of not just every American city but also that of many other countries worldwide. More than thirty-three New Yorkers were dying every hour from covid-19, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo. Still, the statistics only captured a part of the over-all devastation. Earlier this month, when Cuomo announced eight hundred deaths on a single day in New York City, he was relying on figures from hospitals, which only included people who had tested positive for covid-19. But, in just the first eight days of April, the office of the city medical examiner recorded 1,891 deaths in peoples home.” - The whole article is here  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-body-collectors-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic/amp