State Officials Stock up on Body Bags as Coronavirus Pushes Southern California Hospitals to Their Limits
Dec. 15, 2020
An ambulance arrives at a Santa Ana Hospital on Dec. 11, 2020. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
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Skyrocketing coronavirus cases and hospitalizations forced state public health officials to order an additional 5,000 body bags and 60 refrigerated trucks to help store dead bodies as morgues could get overrun.
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Covid-19 is taking a devastating toll on Filipino American nurses
Co-President of National Nurses United, Zenei Cortez, tells Amanpour she s seeing supplies that nurses need locked up in closets.
Posted: Dec 12, 2020 9:01 PM
Updated: Dec 12, 2020 9:01 PM
Posted By: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Nearly a third of the nurses who ve died of coronavirus in the US are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide.
A recent report from the largest nurses union in the country revealed the disproportionate number of deaths. It s a jarring statistic researchers are working to understand and a tragedy families across the US and around the world are living with every day.