More Americans killed from virus than in Vietnam War
, surpassing the number of American fatalities in the Vietnam War. More than 58,300
Omar Rodriguez organizes bodies Wednesday at a funeral home in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. Before COVID-19, the funeral home handled an average of seven or eight bodies a week; it is now seeing more than 40. Medical workers wheel a deceased patient on a stretcher behind a privacy screen Monday at the Brooklyn Hospital Center.
Paul Harris, a gravedigger for the city of Boston for 15 years, at work at a new veterans section at Mount Hope Cemetery.People watch from a Chicago overpass as a procession of police vehicles leads a hearse carrying the remains of Sgt. Clifford Martin, a 25-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, on April 21. Martin died April 10 of complications from COVID-19.
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