NYC Funeral Homes Working at Maximum Capacity Amid Pandemic

A body is moved from a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue to a vehicle at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York on April 8, 2020. Bryan R. SmithAFP via Getty Images

Funeral home employees across New York City are working long hours to deal with an unprecedented death rate due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also don’t have, or will soon run out of, sufficient personal protection equipment.

As of April 9, the city’s death toll from the CCP virus stands at 4,571; nationwide, there have been more than 15,900 deaths.