Los Angeles COVID-19 Crisis Revealed by 52-Foot Trailer of Death at Funeral Home thedailybeast.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedailybeast.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It wasn’t yet noon and Magda Maldonado had already overseen her second funeral of the day.
The 58-year-old director at Continental Funeral Home in East L.A. had another service scheduled in four hours, but for a moment she sat down and closed her eyes. She thought about her grieving employees and how, in less than a week, four of them had lost loved ones to COVID-19.
“I don’t have words,” she said, holding back tears.
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Seven minutes from the funeral home, in a storefront with signs boasting specials for quinceañeras and weddings, Elizabeth Garibay arranged rose buds and baby’s breath into funeral bouquets at J&I Florist some of the only orders that haven’t dwindled during the pandemic.