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THREAD 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
3. This Ask a Mortician episode on corpse management after a natural disaster provides further context
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.’ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/coronavirus-deaths-hart-island-burial.html#click=https://t.co/LF2pJMpaaP
