At the last moment of his life, 56-year-old Ananda Mooliya was still assuring his wife and children that he was still in good health.
Although his breath was loud enough to obscure the sound of the TV.
His wife Rajni Attavar made soup for him,
With the help of his eldest son, Mooliya struggled to get up from the bed, sweat formed beads on his face, and he opened his mouth to breathe greatly.
“I wiped his face.” The wife recalled with tears in her eyes. “Screamed his name, but he didn’t respond.”
Mooliya is a subway station administrator in Queens, New York,
After being infected with the new coronavirus, the doctor told him that he didn’t need to do the test, as long as he took the medicine at home to keep enough water.
He did as he did, but he did not survive.
About ten minutes later, the emergency personnel arrived, and they tried to help him breathe with a respirator, which still didn’t help.
Then, on the kitchen floor, they covered him with a white blanket …
According to the certificate, Mooliya’s death was at 9:30 on April 8th. The cause of death: recent influenza-like illness (probably a new crown).
The death was heartbreaking, but then something happened to make his family sorrowful-it took only a few hours to lift Mooliya ’s body from the kitchen floor to the morgue, but it took him three minutes A week.
Why do you need to wait so long?
Because this is how corpses are handled in New York, the world ’s largest city. He is not alone.
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With the spread of the epidemic, hospitals, morgues, funeral homes, crematoriums and cemeteries in New York’s hardest hit areas were overwhelmed.
In the city, traces of body bags can be seen everywhere.
As of the date of publication, there have been more than 1.15 million confirmed cases in the United States and more than 67,000 deaths. Among them, New York State recorded more than 24,000 deaths, most of them from New York City.
Although New York’s corpse storage capacity has doubled to 2,000, it is still far from enough.
Outside the hospital, in the funeral home parking lot, there are refrigerated trailers, which are piled with a large number of bodies that have not yet been able to be cremated.
Funeral homes continue to refuse family members, saying that they can not bear, many cremation ceremonies were pushed to mid-May, or even longer.
In Brooklyn, a funeral parlour even ruptured because there were too many remains to be cremated and the cremation furnace was overused …
“Too many people are dead, beyond all of us.” The owner of a memorial church said, “I have been doing this for 43 years, and I have never encountered anything like this.”
According to the latest data released by the WHO, the number of single-day deaths in the United States reached a new high on May 1, reaching 2,909.
The situation is so severe that even Trump, who was always optimistic, had to admit in an interview on Sunday that the death toll would be greater than previously predicted.
“We may lose 75,000, 80,000 to 100,000.” He said, “This is really terrible, we should not lose anyone because of this.”
Earlier, Trump’s predicted death toll was 60,000 people, but this number was exceeded last week, and Trump said he knew it.
“It has risen,” he said. “I used to say that the number will be 65,000. Now I think it will be 80,000-90,000. It is rising, and it is rising very fast.”
Trump’s predictions and earlier in the same day, Dr. Deborah Birx, an official of the White House New Crown Task Force, said in an interview that the data is still slightly different.
She believes, “Our prediction has always been that 100,000 to 240,000 people will lose their lives, provided that the situation is fully alleviated, and each of us learns social isolation.”
This shows that Trump’s data is still very conservative.
At the same time, he also said, “Despite this, no matter what you think, if we blockade, then it is still controlled at a low level.”
Post time: May-05-2020