LA Coroner’s Office Looks to Refrigerated Trailers to Accommodate Surge

LA Coroner’s Office Looks to Refrigerated Trailers to Accommodate Surge
A nurse wearing personal protective equipment, including a personal air purifying respirator, works in a COVID-19 intensive care unit at Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Community Hospital on Jan. 6, 2021. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
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Los Angeles medical officials are preparing to use refrigerated trailers to house a potential need for surge storage during the ongoing CCP virus pandemic.

“In preparation for the pandemic, [we] installed refrigerated storage units in the beginning of April 2020. The units have remained largely unused until recently,” Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner Dr. Jonathan Lucas said in a Jan. 8 press release.