‘I sleep counting bodies’: New York funeral home grapples with pandemic death toll

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Since the coronavirus outbreak began in the US, funeral home workers have been grappling with a surge in demand that many describe as “overnight” and “unexpected”. While most people are aware of the frontline battles health care workers are fighting against Covid-19, few understand the grim reality faced by those handling the bodies of victims as the US coronavirus death toll surpasses 73,000.Arsenio Lopez, a funeral home director in Brooklyn and a Vietnam War veteran, showed the South China Morning Post what it is like to work during one of the largest health crises that he has seen. Follow us on:
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