New York City hospitals reported overrun with bodies during COVID death surge, staffing shortages

NYC hospitals overrun with bodies during COVID death surge, staffing... Hospitals are scrambling to organize dead COVID-19 patients, shifting them between facilities amid backlogs at the city Medical Examiner's Office and local crematoriums, The Post has learned. New York Post

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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.” ...