New York City To Bury Unclaimed Bodies

New York City To Bury Unclaimed Bodies

The coronavirus pandemic is killing hundreds of people in New York City each day.

To accommodate the dead before families claim them, hospitals are having to go to extremes.

The city's medical examiner expanded temporary refrigerated storage to hold 3,600 decedents.

The usual hold of 900 is not enough, according to reports at Business Insider.

However, a policy change is altering the way the deceased will be handled.

Bodies that families don't claim within 14 days of death will be catalogued.