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Funeral homes are crafting their own measures to protect staff against COVID-19 and to prepare for rising deaths that have the potential to overwhelm the system.
Demand has already grown.
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Teresa Jones, owner and funeral director at Choice Memorial Cremation and Funeral Services, said she is operating three crematoriums compared with the usual one.
Jones has also split her staff into two groups who alternate between seven straight days of work and seven days off, to ensure they will be able to operate even if one group had members who contracted COVID-19.