The Pentagon has placed an order for 100,000 green nylon body bags as government experts predict the coronavirus will claim the lives of more than 200,000 Americans.
By Thursday morning the US death toll had surpassed 5,000 deaths and 90 percent of the country was on lockdown to try and slow the spread of COVID-19.
With more than 215,000 cases, the government was expected to get the next 50,000 body bags from a stockpile, however preparations are being made to triple up as hospitals and morgues in states including New York become overwhelmed with victims and are running out of space.
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DailyMail report: On Tuesday, a forklift was used to help lift dead bodies onto a refrigerated truck outside the Brooklyn Hospital Center. The COVID-19 death toll in the city is 1,139 and 47,439 confirmed cases and hospitals have been using bed sheets to wrap bodies because they no longer have body bags.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not have a specific delivery date for the military-style remains pouches, sources told Bloomberg Wednesday.
The green nylon body bags are usually distributed to war zones and measure up at 94 inches (7.8 feet) by 38 inches (3.2 feet).
A source said, the bags have not yet been ordered but the Defense Logistics Agency’s Troop Support unit, which manages the Pentagon’s stockpile, was looking into the request. A FEMA spokesperson said there will be ‘prudent planning’ that includes preparing for ‘mortuary contingencies’.
After it was predicted the death toll in the US would hit 200,000 President Trump told the country to brace for a tough time ahead.
‘This is going to be a painful two weeks,’ Trump said at a White House coronavirus briefing on Tuesday. ‘Our strength will be tested, our endurance will be tried.’
On Monday, the vice director of operations for the the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Major General Jeff Taliaferro, said they ‘are in close partnership’ with FEMA to ‘identify what their needs are.
Taliaferro said Monday’s ‘mission assignments’ included requests for prepackaged Meals Ready to Eat (MRE), and ‘other supplies’ as well as ‘a mission assignment from FEMA for a mortuary affairs support team for New York’. Taliaferro added they are ‘in the process of identifying’ personnel.
FEMA is working with state and regional health and emergency managers to distribute pouches where needed.
However a new report has claimed Trump was warned about the devastating effects of a coronavirus on January 6, 2017.
‘The most likely and significant threat is a novel respiratory disease, particularly a novel influenza disease,’ the USNORTHCOM Branch Plan 3560: Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Disease Response, states. ‘Coronavirus infections [are] common around the world.’
The Pentagon document, obtained by The Nation, leans on findings from 2012’s Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a type of coronavirus, and ‘incorporates insights from several recent outbreaks’.
The 103-page documents warns that an outbreak could reach pandemic levels due to a number of factors that are the case with the 2019 virus; unsanitary living conditions, crowded workplaces, and proximity to international airports.
It also warns that it would be worsened by a shortage in PPE.
‘Competition for, and scarcity of resources will include…non-pharmaceutical MCM [Medical Countermeasures] (e.g., ventilators, devices, personal protective equipment such as face masks and gloves), medical equipment, and logistical support,’ is mentioned in the document. ‘This will have a significant impact on the availability of the global workforce.’
The document also predicts a lack of hospitals beds.
‘Even the most industrialized countries will have insufficient hospital beds, specialized equipment such as mechanical ventilators, and pharmaceuticals readily available to adequately treat their populations during clinically severe pandemic,’ it states.
The document has been shared after the likes of California and New York’s governors have stressed they are fast running out of space to accommodate COVID-19 patients and Navy hospital ships Mercy and Comfort have supplied 1,000 extra beds for patients who are not suffering from coronavirus.
Recent images out of New York and New Jersey have shown medical workers hauling bodies into refrigerated trucks. The states have the highest COVID-19 death tolls in the country.
New deaths from the coronavirus rose by 908 on Wednesday while new infections across the country increased by 25,676.
More than 40 percent of the country’s fatal cases come from New York state where the death toll rose by 391 to 1,941. New York state also saw an increase of 7,917 cases to bring the total number of new infections to 83,712.
New Jersey is second behind New York with 267 deaths and 18,997 infections.
Michigan now has the third highest death toll in the country after reporting a spike in its figures over night. The state recorded 75 new deaths, bringing its death toll to 259. Michigan has more than 7,600 confirmed cases.
Baxter Dmitry
Email: baxter@thepeoplesvoice.tv
The natural survival instinct that drives species to reproduce became faulty after humans reached about 2 million globally
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BS! I live in Macomb Co. MI and there is no spike, no “outbreak” to speak of. Myself and many others have gone to our local Hospitals and surveiled the Screening tents and E room entrances and have all noticed the SAME OUTCOME…. NOTHING Going On!!!!! NO, chaos, NO surge of patients, NO run on the E room, NO LINES TO BE SCREENED! Hell, there was NO activity what so ever at the 2 Hospitals I did video of.
They ARE LYING TO US!!!!!!