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MORE MaryAnn McAdams is the director of All Souls Catholic Cemetery in Long Beach. Photo by Benjamin Gottlieb/KCRW. LA County passed a grim milestone on Tuesday. The public health department announced 20,000 people have died from COVID-19. Those deaths have created a backlog of work at mortuaries and cemeteries throughout the region. “Currently, I m serving almost 300 people,” says MaryAnn McAdams, the director of All Souls Catholic Cemetery in Long Beach. Before the pandemic, this cemetery helped about 75 clients at a time bury or cremate their loved ones. “We re dubbed the last responders.” “I don t know how we do it, to be quite honest,” she says. “We re having the remains held here because of permitting issues. We can t get information from the health department. The churches have been closed. We re limited to places where we can actually hold the service. There are a lot of obstacles.” ....