Precinct Reporter Group News Frontline Mortician Deals with the Dead, COVID Testing
By Dianne Anderson
Each day, Margo Malone goes into her frontline job in hazmat gear with a full face shield, mask, goggles, double gloved, and armed with cans of Lysol.
“I have become a Lysol junkie,” she said.
When COVID first hit, the bodies were coming in already masked, and double bagged, but lately, probably for lack of PPE, masks are absent. With Lysol, she takes all the necessary precautions, disinfecting the decedent’s eyes, nose, mouth, down the throat, whatever it takes to keep herself safe.
Until top health organizations can say with certainty that the virus is not a problem after death, she and others in her field are taking extreme precautions.