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Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 16May 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Summary:
Covid seemed to pretty much drop out of the news this week. Usually, I can pick up a lot of virus stories just from news sites most read or recent news lists; this week I had to go looking for them. Part of the reason was that the fuel pipeline shutdown dominated the headlines, but the underlying reason is that new cases in the US and globally, are falling rapidly, even in India - No one wants to cover a story that bl
NYC officials give families 30 days to claim bodies of hundreds of COVID-19 victims STILL stored in refrigerated morgues on the Brooklyn waterfront before the city starts to bury them on Hart Island.
Refrigerated trucks await corpses in Brooklyn (Pic Via Associated Press)
Officials of the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner informed the New York City council health committee last week that remains of around 750 Covid-19 victims continue to be stored in refrigerated trucks for over a year now, reports
Washington Examiner.
These makeshift morgues were created to store the bodies of deceased Covid-19 patients as the pandemic exploded at New York in spring last year.
Executive deputy commissioner with the medical examinerâs office Dina Maniotis has revealed that these bodies could probably end up at Hart Island, where the bodies of the poor and unclaimed individuals have been buried for more than a century now.