Horrifying footage has emerged of dead bodies being loaded onto a refrigerated truck with a forklift outside Brooklyn Hospital in New York City where 790 people have died from coronavirus and 36,000 have been infected, according to an article by The Daily Mail.
The video - which was taken by a bystander from their car - shows the bodies being loaded onto a vehicle. It surfaced within hours of a nurse sharing a harrowing photograph of bodies that had been piled into a refrigerated truck to be taken away from a different hospital.
There are makeshift morgues and hospitals popping up all over New York City, the epicenter of the virus in the US, including one in Central Park.
As of Monday morning, there were 142,000 cases of coronavirus in the US and 2,500 people had died.
A 38-year-old nurse at a Manhattan hospital shared this image yesterday of the inside of one of the refrigerated trucks lined on either side with the dead bodies of covid-19 victims
New York City is expecting its 'peak' in the next few weeks and there is a frantic race against time to prepare the already inundated hospital system for it when it comes.
While it is the epicenter now, experts including the White House's most authoritative voice on the subject - Dr. Anthony Fauci - say other cities will soon experience similarly distressing outbreaks.
New Orleans is expected to be the next hotspot - it currently has 1,350 cases and 73 deaths - but Fauci said on Monday he was also worried about Detroit and Los Angeles.
The president has extended social distancing guidelines until the end of April and gave the grim prediction on Sunday that if the death toll remains under 200,000 by the time the pandemic is over, he will have done a 'good job'.
The clip was shared yesterday, the same day an unnamed at a Manhattan hospital shared an image of inside of one of the trucks, lined on either side with body bags.
The 38-year-old took the photo at the end of his shift on Sunday 'to show people' the 'ghastly reality' of the coronavirus in the US, he told Buzzfeednews.
'It is the ghastly reality of what we deal with and where some of us have ended up already,' he said.
Another video shows medical workers waiting with the corpses of the deceased outside a Brooklyn hospital, before the dead are slid on to a refrigerated truck to be taken away
He added that one of the people laying in the truck was a woman he had comforted as she dies.
'I never had the patience to sit with somebody I'd just met until they took their last breath. But I really liked this lady's cardigan and pajamas so I decided to stay and get to know her a little,' he said.
The last time that New York City deployed a fleet of makeshift morgues outside hospitals was in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Queens, the largest borough, has been the hardest-hit by number of cases, hitting five-digits Sunday with 10,373.
It's trailed by Brooklyn with 8,451, The Bronx with 6,145, Manhattan with 5,438 and Staten Island with 1,866.
In the 24-hour period stretching from Saturday night to Sunday night, there were an additional 161 deaths in the city.
The overall citywide death toll from COVID-19 stood at 776 as of late Sunday. By Monday, it had climbed to 790.
Another video shows medical workers waiting with the corpses of the deceased outside a Brooklyn hospital, before the dead are slid on to a refrigerated truck to be taken away
Since the outbreak reached American shores, more than 1,000 New York State residents have died after being infected, according to local health officials.
As of Sunday night, there were a total of 59,513 confirmed cases across the state.
'The numbers are staggering,' New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday.
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'This is unprecedented. We've never seen our EMS system get this many calls, ever.'
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