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Sunday is traditionally a quiet day for Chuck Pryor s Houston funeral home, but on this Sunday in February, almost a year after the global pandemic reached Texas, the phone was still ringing.
Pryor took the call: COVID-19 had taken yet another American life one of more than 500,000 lost to the pandemic so far and another grieving family required the services of the exhausted funeral director and his staff.
2 Feb 2021. Houston, United States. Reuters/Callaghan O Hare Chuck Pryor wheels the casket of Dwight Morgan, 52, who died from complications from COVID-19, to the plot where he will be buried at Earthman Resthaven Cemetery.
By Callaghan O'Hare and Maria Caspani HOUSTON (Reuters) - Sunday is traditionally a quiet day for Chuck Pryor's Houston funeral home, but on this Sund.
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Funeral home staff overwhelmed by waves of COVID-19 deaths By Khristopher J. Brooks COVID-19 s impact on funeral homes
Dutch Nie, who runs a small funeral home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, recounts the flood of calls from grieving families as the first wave of COVID-19 hit the U.S. last year. In March and April, we saw a rise in the number of deaths right off the bat. Those were 18- and 20-hour days. It was difficult to turn off your brain.
Since then, the startling death toll from the coronavirus has put an even greater strain on many funeral homes across the U.S., with the daily number of fatalities topping 4,000 per day in January. Roughly 390,000 Americans have died in total, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now projects up to 90,000 more deaths in the next three weeks alone.