1/ In South Texas, funeral homes have set up their own temporary morgues.

Crematoriums are running overtime. Families wait more than a week to bury loved ones.

For body couriers and funeral workers, there& #39;s no letup in sight. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP ">https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
These “last responders” deal with the bodies as coronavirus deaths ...

Funeral homes have set up temporary morgues. Crematoriums are running overtime. Families must wait more than a week to bury their loved ones. For body couriers and funeral workers, there’s no letup...

https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP
2/ More than 4,000 people in Texas have died with the coronavirus. That’s surely an undercount.

Few regions have been hit as hard as the Rio Grande Valley. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP ">https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
These “last responders” deal with the bodies as coronavirus deaths ...

Funeral homes have set up temporary morgues. Crematoriums are running overtime. Families must wait more than a week to bury their loved ones. For body couriers and funeral workers, there’s no letup...

https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP
3/ Here, the government has dispatched mobile morgues.

Refrigerated trucks are popping up behind hospital wards and funeral homes.

Bodies wrapped in plastic or sheets line up on their floors. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP ">https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
These “last responders” deal with the bodies as coronavirus deaths ...

Funeral homes have set up temporary morgues. Crematoriums are running overtime. Families must wait more than a week to bury their loved ones. For body couriers and funeral workers, there’s no letup...

https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP
4/ More than 90% of the population is Hispanic, a demographic more likely than white people to end up hospitalized or die from the virus

There are 284 reported deaths in just one county in the Rio Grande Valley. http://bit.ly/3fNuFfP ">https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
These “last responders” deal with the bodies as coronavirus deaths ...

Funeral homes have set up temporary morgues. Crematoriums are running overtime. Families must wait more than a week to bury their loved ones. For body couriers and funeral workers, there’s no letup...

http://bit.ly/3fNuFfP
5/ All of this is straining an industry that handles the mechanics of death.

Like this body courier. He picks up dead bodies and delivers them to funeral homes and the morgue. In a normal week, he gets 10 jobs.

This past weekend, he picked up 38 bodies. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP ">https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
5/ All of this is straining an industry that handles the mechanics of death.Like this body courier. He picks up dead bodies and delivers them to funeral homes and the morgue. In a normal week, he gets 10 jobs.This past weekend, he picked up 38 bodies. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
5/ All of this is straining an industry that handles the mechanics of death.Like this body courier. He picks up dead bodies and delivers them to funeral homes and the morgue. In a normal week, he gets 10 jobs.This past weekend, he picked up 38 bodies. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
5/ All of this is straining an industry that handles the mechanics of death.Like this body courier. He picks up dead bodies and delivers them to funeral homes and the morgue. In a normal week, he gets 10 jobs.This past weekend, he picked up 38 bodies. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
6/ Aaron Rivera, a third-generation funeral director in the Rio Grande Valley, bought a refrigerated trailer after he hit his storage capacity for six bodies earlier this month. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP ">https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
7/ Kimberly Foerster& #39;s father died this month. She learned his body wouldn’t be cremated for about a week because the ovens “overheated” from overuse and broke down. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP ">https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
These “last responders” deal with the bodies as coronavirus deaths ...

Funeral homes have set up temporary morgues. Crematoriums are running overtime. Families must wait more than a week to bury their loved ones. For body couriers and funeral workers, there’s no letup...

https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP
8/ A sales representative with Dodge said there’s a weekslong wait to get gurneys from the main purveyor he works with. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP ">https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
These “last responders” deal with the bodies as coronavirus deaths ...

Funeral homes have set up temporary morgues. Crematoriums are running overtime. Families must wait more than a week to bury their loved ones. For body couriers and funeral workers, there’s no letup...

https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP
9/ The sales representative sells embalming chemicals and other equipment to funeral homes in the region.

He says his phone has been ringing for 10 days with requests for body bags. https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP ">https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP&q...
These “last responders” deal with the bodies as coronavirus deaths ...

Funeral homes have set up temporary morgues. Crematoriums are running overtime. Families must wait more than a week to bury their loved ones. For body couriers and funeral workers, there’s no letup...

https://bit.ly/3fNuFfP
You can follow @TexasTribune.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled:
There are a lot of misconceptions about the Turkish diaspora in Germany. Since i just finished writing an essay about this topic I thought it's time to give other people
Read more
Las mejores calculadoras online en 2020A thread http://totumat.com/2020/11/26/las-mejores-calculadoras-online-en-2020/ Cuando se estudian asignaturas que requieren de cálculos complicados, nada mejor que contar con una buena calculadora.
Read more
Mitigating #ClimateChange is as much about taking up new techs as about leaving others behindMost studies focus on #coal's global downfall but another #energy tech decline is loomingRead my new
Read more