NYC hospitals overrun with bodies during COVID death surge, staffing shortages

[Kamaji]

NYC hospitals overrun with bodies during COVID death surge, staffing shortages

By Carl Campanile, Elizabeth Rosner, Nolan Hicks, Jack Morphet and Bruce Golding
January 20, 2022

A recent surge in fatalities combined with staffing shortages due to Omicron have created a backlog at the city Medical Examiner’s office that is having a ripple effect at local hospitals, The Post has learned.

Hospitals are scrambling to cope with the recent surge in COVID-19 fatalities across the city — with some shifting their dead patients between facilities as the ME’s office has been overrun, sources said.

“The whole hospital system is at capacity with patients and, of course, that includes the morgues,” one person familiar with the situation said.

A source at NYC Health + Hospitals, which operates the city’s public health care system, said, “We have so far been able to manage deaths by moving them from one hospital to another and getting additional storage units.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/01/20/nyc-hospitals-overrun-with-bodies-during-covid-death-surge-staffing-shortages/

[Kamaji]

That's what happens when you fire staff for political reasons.

[Wingnut]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[mountaineer]

Didn't they trot out this story nearly two years ago, where bodies were supposedly stacked like cordwood in the streets because of the 'rona?

[rustynail]

How far do bodies run?

[Smokin Joe]

Does each hospital who handles the body get to claim another COVID case?
How does that work, and how much funding (taxpayer money) is involved?

(Note: the CDC quit requiring hospitals to report the number of deaths on a daily basis.)