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Regarding #COVIDー19, Hart Island & the mass burials you’re seeing- here’s some much needed clarification & context:
First from our wonderful contributor @AllisonCMeier “I wrote this not sensational article about Hart Island two months ago...
2. ...While the number of burials has increased, NYC has interred its unclaimed & unidentified dead in mass graves for over a century. Those trenches were not created for this pandemic.” https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XjfyYRIAACEAFM5S">https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/...
The island of unclaimed bodies

In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their...

https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XjfyYRIAACEAFM5S
3. This Ask a Mortician episode on corpse management after a natural disaster provides further context

https://youtu.be/qq6_xujk-fI ">https://youtu.be/qq6_xujk-...
4. ‘It is unclear if those recently increased burials include those who have died from the coronavirus, or if they are people who passed away before the pandemic and were being moved from morgues to create space for the newly dead.’ #click=https://t.co/LF2pJMpaaP">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/coronavirus-deaths-hart-island-burial.html #click=https://t.co/LF2pJMpaaP">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/1...
As Morgues Fill, N.Y.C. to Bury Some Virus Victims in Potter’s Field

The number of internments has drastically increased on Hart Island, where for 150 years the city has buried its poor or unclaimed dead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/coronavirus-deaths-hart-island-burial.html#click=https://t.co/LF2pJMpaaP
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