Fourteen portable morgues are on track to help hospitals overloaded in central Florida amid the state’s massive COVID-19 rupture, according to a report.
There were reports of more than 1,700 deaths from the virus last week in Sunshine State.
An email obtained by WESH 2 News confirmed that the Central Florida AdventHealth division has reached the capacity of hospital mosos due to the influx of patients with COVID.
“We believe this backup is due to a slowdown in production at local funeral homes, which makes us detain the dead for a longer period of time,” the email said, according to the media.
According to the email, hospitals cannot apply for the help they would normally receive through the emergency mortuary response system in Florida.
“Because there is no declaration of disasters in the state, we cannot request resources like FEMORS, but we are contacting them for information,” the email said.
The morgues will be distributed among nine hospitals in the area, two of which – AdventHealth and Orlando Health – will receive three morgues each.
About 44,000 Floridians have died during the pandemic, according to WESH 2.
On Friday, a judge overturned a ban by Florida government Ron DeSantis on masking warrants for students and staff of state public schools.
Leon County Circuit Judge John C. Cooper found DeSantis’ July executive order (which forbade schools from forcing students to disguise themselves) “has no legal authority.”
The judge sided with a group of parents, who challenged the executive order in a lawsuit, after three days of video hearings of the case.
The ruling came after 10 state school boards, which accounted for half of Florida’s 2.8 million public school students, voted to oppose DeSantis’ order and impose mask warrants.