NYC still using refrigerated trucks for COVID victims
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A refrigerated truck is seen outside of a Lenox Hill Hospital facility in the West Village of Manhattan on Friday March 27, 2020. (Jose Salvador/FOX5NY)
NEW YORK - New York City is still using refrigerated trucks to store bodies of coronavirus victims, more than a year after they were first set up as temporary morgues as deaths surged at at the height of the pandemic.
The city’s medical examiner’s office said Friday that 750 bodies are being kept in long-term storage in refrigerated trailers at a Brooklyn pier while family members sort out plans for their final resting places.