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By LIU YINMENG in Los Angeles | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-01-18 11:17 Share CLOSE Rob Karlin has been working seven days a week. Whenever he can catch some rest, he does, but the job of handling the delicate details at the end of another person's life has taken a toll on him, both physically and emotionally. The rising death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles County, the hardest hit region in the US, is overwhelming mortuaries and funeral homes. In Los Angeles County, the country's most populous county, the number ...

Los Angeles morgues overflow as funeral homes turn away families We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Los Angeles morgues overflow as funeral homes turn away families By Matthew Ormseth, Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money and Soumya Karlamangla January 2, 2021 — 11.30am Normal text size Advertisement Los Angeles: A monthslong surge of coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County is reaching its grim if inevitable zenith as deaths reach once-unthinkable levels, medical infrastructure is buckling under a flood of patients and officials fear the mortality ...

A months-long surge of coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County is reaching its grim if inevitable zenith as deaths reach once-unthinkable levels, medical infrastructure is buckling under a flood of patients and officials fear the mortality numbers will only worsen in the coming weeks. The county recorded an average of 151 people dying from COVID-19 each day in the past week — a figure that’s almost as high as the average number of people dying daily from every other cause, about 170 a day. But more recently, those numbers have spiked considerably. Single-day COVID-19 death records have b...

Some L.A. County mortuaries and funeral homes simply have no more room for the dead Matthew Ormseth, Soumya Karlamangla © Provided by The LA Times Continental Funeral Home director Magda Maldonado looks over a board with dozens of names of the dead who have not yet been buried or cremated in East Los Angeles on Dec. 20. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) As hospitals in Southern California fill with people infected with COVID-19, so too are the places where a number of those patients end up. Mortuary and funeral home operators say they are having to turn away bereaved...

As hospitals in Southern California fill with people infected with COVID-19, so too are the places where a number of those patients end up. Mortuary and funeral home operators say they are having to turn away bereaved families because they don’t have the capacity to handle more bodies. “The thing that’s never happened to me, even since the beginning of this,” said Rob Karlin, the owner and funeral director of Los Angeles Funeral Service in Culver City, “is I’m now saying to people who are calling me, ‘I’m sorry. We can’t accommodate you. We’re at capacity.’”