Local storage company seeing demand for refrigerated containers due to COVID-19 deaths
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and last updated 2021-01-14 00:21:21-05
Morgues and funeral homes across our state are running out of space due to the spike in COVID-19 deaths.
Mid-State Containers located in Santa Maria was hit with the hard task of shipping refrigerated containers across California, something they say they ve never had to do until now. It s like something out of, you know, a horror film almost,â said Jake Knotts, Mid-State Containers Managing Director.
Workers in Santa Maria are prepping the 40-foot cold storage containers for shipment due to an increase in COVID-19 related deaths across the state.
You have farmers, wineries, breweries, you have pharmaceutical companies, said Mid-State Containers managing director Jake Knotts. This is the first time we ve experienced hospitals and morgues and mortuaries calling us asking us for immediate cold storage because they are kind of in a crisis mode.
Knotts says over the past few weeks his company has rented out dozens of containers to hospitals and morgues all over the state, most of them in Southern California where the COVID-19 death toll continues to climb daily. We are seeing a real big demand for San Bernardino and Riverside counties right now, Knotts said. We have eight scheduled to go to Riverside County starting this week.
Published January 12, 2021 •
Updated on January 13, 2021 at 1:11 am
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar said they are now comfortable enough in the manufacturing process that the task force believes the second doses will be available when needed.
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